You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.
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Related You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've... ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when yo... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again. ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again. ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN ...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the... ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or soci... GEOFFREY F. ABERT When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or soci... ABERT F. GEOFFREY Every time hes supposed to be here, hes showed up, BRENDA JONES Only by facing your demons can you stop them from having power over you. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE When you understand that through the power of conversion in solitude you can become great, so many t... SUNDAY ADELAJA Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say ev... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You may have a body free of disease and deformity, and have no worries or grief at all; you may be u... SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that positio... RAMANA MAHARSHI God is always on time, it may not be the time you are expecting, but hes on time. Just like he said ... ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE Believe in your inner power & capability to fight. More you engage to your power & capability, the f... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Only you have the power to change everything, or nothing... SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Everything is within your power, and your power is within you. JANICE TRACHTMAN Because of the power of neuroplasticity, you can, in fact, reframe your world and rewire your brain ... ELIZABETH THORNTON failures are not your own self. See to it that you are free from them. Only when you can relinquish ... THICH NHAT HANH No one will remember the kick in the balls if hes bleeding everywhere... NATHAN ELMO MELO Believe in your inner power and capability to fight. More you engage to your power and capability, t... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Hes ready to go every morning. He runs right over to the cruiser, PETER GOULD Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power ove... STEVE MARABOLI A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but hes not a man of action... GEORGES CLEMENCEAU The power of man;Man does not only have the power to accomplish great & unbelievable things in life,... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you honestly realize your mistake but your mind continues to go over again & again & not decisive... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA You have the power to change everything you don't enjoy about your life. You do not have the power t... WILIAM CONSTANTINE Hes the smartest dog Ive ever had, PETER GOULD Hes doing better than what we thought. JAMIE KING More you engage to your power and capability, the faster your fear of failure dwindle away as you ta... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA My brother went to New Orleans when he was 19, ... Hes 72 now. BARBARA UPTON Theres nothing more efficient than honesty and nothing more powerful than vulnerability because, vul... STEFAN MOLYNEUX dont be hard on yourself for doing something wrong, be hard on yourself when you question your faith... BAILEY CHANDRA When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your p... N SMITH Don’t give power to others to control your emotions or make you feel inadequate or remind you of y... LATIKA TEOTIA Forgive those that hurt you. It will only make you stronger.. Take your Power back from them. They a... NERISSA IRVING No one can take your ability to love away from you. You may go through a period of pain. You may eve... AKIROQ BROST Let no one ever intimidate you, you are standing on no one's ground. But again, some have claimed th... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a tho... HENRIK IBSEN Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a... CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you... GEORGE GROVE If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power t... UZO ADUBA You could look at someone from a distance, love them in your imagination, and see in them everything... OUSSAMA HEDHLI So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures pol... FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER The Chinese words ‘kung fu’ translate more or less as ‘a man hard at work over a long time’.... MASTER IAIN ARMSTRONG When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to t... WENDY MASS If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wi... SøREN KIERKEGAARD Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are rea... ECKHART TOLLE You didn't have to do this, you know. I would have been fine." "No, you wouldn't have. Yo... E.J. FISCH Whats the point of changing everything about your lover? you dont love them entirely for who they ar... AMIR RIVEROLL Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your r... SAUL ALINSKY If you take responsibility and blame yourself, you have the power to change things. But if you put r... DEJA KING [Senior Rob Hudson sustained his good form with a 3-under par 33 to earn medalist honors for the var... ALEX ADAMS The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really... OPRAH WINFREY This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to l... SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ You must remember always to give, of everything you have. You must give foolishly even. You must be ... WILLIAM SAROYAN By the power of Grayskull. . . I have the power!" Nick "By the power of Grayskull, I'm going to... SHERRILYN KENYON Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information... BRUCE SCHNEIER Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about yo... SAUL ALINSKY People come in and out of your life. For a time they're your world; they are everything. There's no ... JENNY HAN People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then o... JENNY HAN You have power over my body but the Lord Jesus hath power over my body and soul; and assure yourselv... ANNE HUTCHINSON When you create something wonderful from your heart, it will have a life of its own... and even you,... JOHN B. BEJO Your opponents would love you to believe that it's hopeless, that you have no power, that there's no... REBECCA SOLNIT No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, pow... WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (Dear kirk hammet, what kind of vegitarian are you? a lactose vegitarian, a ovum vegitarian, or a ve... JAMES HETFIELD "The biggest mistake is throwing them all away..."
People throw away all their F's and keep all thei... KAYLA RAE You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have pow... MICHAEL PALMER There is comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do every... ELLEN BASS The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn't stay away from it any longer. ENRIQUE IGLESIAS The Power That Others Have To Affect You Is Only The Power You Give Them. DONALD LYNN FROST its a metephor, see: you put the killing thing right between your teeth but you dont give it the pow... JOHN GREEN I knew I couldn’t trust my illogical heart, and that meant I had to do everything in my power to s... CATHERINE DOYLE When you own or take responsibility for your feelings, you place yourself in a position of power and... , JOINT CUSTODY WITH A JERK: RAISING A CHILD WITH AN UNCOOPERATIVE EX, 2011 Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power. DAN WEBSTER The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything... UMBERTO ECO I want you to believe-I do believe-that you did everything in your power to prevent the final catast... ERNEST SIMPSON As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence ... DONALD TRUMP But there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, h... ALAN PATON You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to ... MITCH ALBOM They can only do so much per year. But if you can manage [the power] better you can get longer run t... DAVE HEACOCK There is always a way out of your troubles as long as you trust in the Higher power to guide you thr... KēVENS There are terrible jerks, and there are an unusually large concentration of them in the workplace. A... SRIKUMAR RAO Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you recei... JOEL OSTEEN They bred dogs for everything else, even diving for fish, why didn’t they breed them to live longe... PETER HELLER My dear sister, you can’t escape God, and you can’t escape your skeletons in the closet. They wi... CORALLIE BUCHANAN Mapleshade: "Your punishment is complete now, Crookedstar. You have lost everything." Crookeds... ERIN HUNTER When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from... DAPHNE ZUNIGA Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body fallin... HARUKI MURAKAMI How often you impress people when you have nothing and how often you oppress them when you have ever... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The U.S. has a great power to protect our people. Only you have the power. AHMED MANSOUR People get comfortable with the way you arethey have formed their opinion of you based on everythi... , I GOT THIS: HOW I CHANGED MY WAYS AND LOST WHAT WEIGHED ME DOWN, 2012 When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence yo... STEVE MARABOLI I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up eve... TRAVIS BARKER Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take awa... DAVY CROCKETT Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take awa... BARRY GOLDWATER No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, ... ORISON SWETT MARDEN Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction. GERMANY KENT
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ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reform... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it ... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswor... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Look around you--there are people around you. Maybe you will remember one of them all your life and ... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN History has in different questions laid out some tremendous turnabouts and curves. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when yo... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere el... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN - Не иначе как двенадцать, - объявил и Шухов. - Солнышко н... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The fact that no one made demands on her knowledge in her special field was lucky for Simochka. Not ... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN So let the reader who expects this book to be a political exposé slam its covers shut right now. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no mor... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his p... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN (Please forgive us, reader. We have once more gone astray with this rightist opportunism—this conc... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Those who floated in the ark were weightless and had weightless thoughts. They were neither hungry n... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-K... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national h... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Where an open war is impossible, oppression can continue quietly behind the scenes. Terrorism. Guerr... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, n... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold? ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Literature becomes the living memory of a nation. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN By apeculiar coincidence, the very day when I was giving my address in Washington, ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalit... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I think, ladies and gentlemen, and I particularly address those of you who have a socialist outlook,... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN That’s all very well, but how many family doctors would you need? It simply doesn’t fit into the... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Now for the first time you were about to see people who were not your enemies. Now for the first tim... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN