Pow Quotes

• One of these days... One of these days... Pow! Right in the kisser!

  Jackie Gleason

  Honeymooners, These Days

  "Fictional characters: Ralph Kramden". "The Honeymooners", TV Series (1955–1956)., www.imdb.com.

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• He [John McCain] is a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren`t captured.

  Donald Trump

  War, Hero, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love? Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save.

  John Milton

  Men, Redemption, Unjust

  John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.191

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• Pow'r above pow'rs!
  O heavenly eloquence!
  That with the strong rein of commanding words,
  Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence
  Of men's affections, more than all their swords!

  Samuel Daniel

  Strong, Men, Affection

  Samuel Daniel, “Musophilus Containing A General Defence Of All Learning (Ex”

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• The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

  Thomas Gray

  Beauty, Path, Wealth

  'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' (1751) l. 29

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• Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

  John Dryden

  Past, Hours, Has Beens

  John Dryden (1767). “THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, Esq; Containing All His ORIGINAL POEMS, TALES, AND TRANSLATIONS, IN FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME THE SECOND”, p.364

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• The people have a right supreme
  To make their kings, for Kings are made for them.
  All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust,
  Which when resum'd, can be no longer just.
  Successionm for the general good design'd,
  In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind.

  John Dryden

  Kings, People, Design

  John Dryden (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• I state for the record that I have never sought funds from any POW family, nor led them to believe in any way that we were going on a mission to rescue their specific missing loved one.

  Bo Gritz

  Missing You, Believe, Records

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• I got the wild style, always been a foul child,
  My guns go boom-boom, and your guns go pow-pow.

  Big L

  Children, Rap, Gun

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• I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by the great master paintings... And then finally, they leap, they take off... they become themselves. Then it looks like they just came out of nowhere. Just like 'Pow!'

  James Rosenquist

  Thinking, Artist, Looks

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.

  Joshua Slocum

  Inspirational, Funny, Journey

  Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.372, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• POW 369, I should salute you from this heart of mine. And thank you for placing your life on the line.

  Darryl Worley

  Heart, Lines, Politics

  Song: POW 369, 2006

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• He finds his fellow guilty of a skin
  Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r
  T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause
  Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.

  William Cowper

  Color, Skins, Slavery

  William Cowper (1857). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Of the Inner Temple”, p.198

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• So over time, playing shows - after every show we would have pow-wow, I would have notes and we'd go over and we'd really restructure and re-do and now I feel really, really good about the show. But it's taken time.

  Solange Knowles

  Taken, Wow, Notes

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Nay, had I pow'r, I should
  Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
  Uproar the universal peace, confound
  All unity on earth.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Unity, Earth

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Macbeth”, p.158, Penguin

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• I love seeing somebody act real earnest and serious, like Jackie Gleason. He makes me laugh because he reflects back to me my own serious-mindedness and how ridiculous it all is. It's always easier to see somebody else in that position than yourself, and you laugh. It's like the classic slipping on the banana peel, or someone getting hit by a pie in the face. Why do those things make us laugh? Is it from relief, like: Thank God it wasn't me? Or is it something else: I'm being very serious now. I'm pontificating earnestly and solemnly about-POW! PIE IN THE FACE! The bust-up of certainty.

  Jeff Bridges

  Real, Pie, Laughing

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• Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm; For those who dare the truth to tell, Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Magic, Wish, Fairy

  Maria Edgeworth (1848). “Forester. The Prussian vase. The good aunt. Angelina. The good French governess. Mademoiselle Panache. The knapsack”, p.422

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• We know great Nature's pow'r, Mother of things, whose vast unbounded sway From the deep centre all around extends Wide to the flaming barriers of the world. We feel her power; we strive not to repress (Vainly repress'd, or to deformity) Her lawful growth: ours be the task alone To check her rude excrescencies, to prune Her wanton overgrowth, and where she strays In uncouth shapes, to lead her gently back, With prudent hand, to form and better use.

  John Armstrong

  Mother, Nature, Hands

  John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”

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• Then love of pleasure sways each heart, and we From that no more than from ourselves can fly. Blameless when govern'd well. But where it errs Extravagant, and wildly leads to ill, Public or private, there its curbing pow'r Cool reason must exert.

  John Armstrong

  Heart, Reason, Pleasure

  John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”

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• It's hardly in a body's pow'r,To keep, at times, frae being sour.

  Robert Burns

  Body, Sour

  Robert Burns (1827). “The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and Criticism on His Writing ; to which are Prefixed Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry by James Currie, M. D. ; with Many Additional Poems and Songs and an Enlarged and Corrected Glossary”, p.36

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• While briskly to each patriot lip
  Walks eager round the inspiring flip;
  Delicious draught, whose pow'rs inherit
  The quintessence of public spirit!

  John Trumbull

  Drinking, Flip, Lips

  John Trumbull (1839). “M'Fingal: a modern epic poem, in four cantos”, p.56

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• She who only finds her self-esteem
  In others' admiration, begs an alms;
  Depends on others for her daily food,
  And is the very servant of her slaves;
  Tho' oftentimes, in a fantastic hour,
  O'er men she may a childish pow'r exert,
  Which not ennobles but degrades her state.

  Joanna Baillie

  Self Esteem, Men, May

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.27

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• Senator John McCain, who spent over five years in a Vietnamese POW camp, publicly releases 1,000 pages of medical records. Now people are left with only open nagging questions: what kind of freak has 1,000 pages of medical records?

  Jon Stewart

  Years, People, Records

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• Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.

  John Yoo

  Hands, Doe, Territory

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• People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience...I want to give them two hours of just pow.

  Judy Garland

  Two, People, Giving

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