Pow Quotes - Page 2

• I talk to hundreds of companies a year and spend hour after hour in heady pow-wows with CEOs, financial analysts and my colleagues in the mutual-fund business, but I stumble onto the big winners in extracurricular situations, the same way you do.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, After Hours, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  War, Government, Iraq

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• I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

  Larry Hovis

  Concentration, Concentration Camp, Camps

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• For sov'reign pow'r reign not alone,
  Grace is the partner of the throne;
  Thy grace and justice mighty Lord,
  Shall well divide our last reward.

  Isaac Watts

  Justice, Grace, Thrones

  Isaac Watts (1776). “The Psalms of David, Imitated in the Language of the New Testament: And Applied to the Christian State and Worship. by I. Watts”, p.128

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• This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend! It doth control and also doth obey? And 'tis within and yet it is beyond, 'Tis both inside and yet outside one's self? What paradox! What fickle-natur'd pow'r! Aye: frailty, thy name-- belike--is Force.

  Ian Doescher

  Self, Names, Fickle

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• Jenks, you can fly me up the rest of the way to Trent, and then pow! I give Trent his statue." "Pow, you'll be naked!" Jenks exclaimed. (Rachel and Jenks)

  Kim Harrison

  Giving, Naked, Way

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• I just didn't want her to get hurt. I thought she was going to be. But everyone gets their share, don't they? Sure. Pow, in the nose. Pow, in the eye. Pow, below the belt, down you go, and the ref just went out for a hot dog.

  Stephen King

  Dog, Hurt, Eye

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Kindness, Hands, Lds

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• In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors.

  Stephen King

  Two, Voice, Criticism

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• The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you; The malice towards you to forgive you.

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiving, Malice, Spares

  "Cymbeline".

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• A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

  Andrew Vachss

  Children, Home, Kids

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• When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.

  Ken Kesey

  Wow, Scene, Rendezvous

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• You could make your fingers reproduce exactly what you felt, if you really worked at it. I achieved it, not only spending a lot of time at the keyboard but finding ways I could make my fingers reproduce my deepest feelings. It meant, when you hit a note with a finger, you sank into that note all the way to the bottom of the keyboard until it went pow! Right?

  Lennie Tristano

  Feelings, Keyboards, Way

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• The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site.

  Bo Gritz

  Teamwork, Effort, Midnight

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• Statement of Being. There is one Mind, and I AM that Mind. That Mind is eternal, and it is Life. I am that Mind, and I am ETERNAL LIFE. That Mind knows no disease; I am that Mind, and I am HEALTH. That Mind is the source of all Power, and cannot know doubt nor fear; I am that M ind, and I am POW ER and PEACE. That M ind knows only Truth and knows ALL truth; I am that M ind, and I am KNOW LEDGE and WISDOM . All things created and uncreated, are in that Mind; I am that Mind, and I am WEALTH and PLENTY. I am the WAY, and the TRUTH, and the LIFE; the LIGHT in me shines out to bless the world.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Light, Shining, Doubt

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• I bought a gun because POW POW sounds a lot better
  than Hey, put that back!

  Joe Torry

  Gun, Sound, Hey

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• In Leading with Honor, Lee uses gripping stories from the POW camps to engage the reader and teach invaluable principles of leadership. I highly recommend this book for developing leaders at all levels in any organization, military of civilian.

  William R. Looney III

  Military, Book, Organization

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• I've buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a gunman go pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, five hollow point bullets, God save me. What do you think this is? This isn't Zimmerman. But unfortunately, he's become the face of Block Watch, Crime Watch.

  Curtis Sliwa

  Block, Angel, Thinking

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• I saw this sign posted once, it said, "Blasting Zone Ahead." Wow. Shouldn't that read: "Road Closed?" What do you mean there's a blasting zone? What am I supposed to do? "Hey-uh, you might wanna buckle up. Blasting zone coming up. Yeah. Just saw the sign. Put the helmets on back there! Yeah I think we're- (Pow!)- Oh! We're getting close! (Pow!)- Oh! This is gonna be a bad blasting zone! Remember that last one-we lost Billy?"

  Brian Regan

  Funny, Mean, Thinking

  "Brian Regan Live". Audio CD, 1997.

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• Being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be president.

  Fred Thompson

  President

  2008 Republican National Convention Address, Delivered 2 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.

  W. E. B. Griffin

  Men, Discipline, Body

  W. E. B. Griffin (1982). “Brotherhood of war, book 1: the lieutenants”

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• My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued to say is that the POW's are lying if they assert it was North Vietnamese policy to torture American Prisoners.

  Jane Fonda

  Lying, Taken, Issues

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• Now, being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be president. But it does reveal character. This is the kind of character that civilizations from the beginning of history have sought in their leaders.

  Fred Thompson

  Character, Civilization, Leader

  Fred Thompson's Remarks on John McCain's character, www.npr.org. September 2, 2008.

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• I remember the Korean War very well. And I remember the soldiers who were POWs who supposedly were "brainwashed," quote, unquote, who gave in, so to speak. And when they came back, they were treated like pariahs and traitors.

  Martin Scorsese

  War, Soldier, Korean

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [John McCain] didn't believe me. I think anybody who's been in a POW camp for five years can - take eight minutes on The Daily Show.

  Jon Stewart

  Believe, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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