Power Play Quotes

• We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice - and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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• I'm able to give a voice to the athletes around the world - use my degree for something other than the power play.

  Angela Ruggiero

  Athlete, Play, Voice

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• To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Love, Play, Roles

  Rita Mae Brown (1976). “A plain brown rapper”, Diana Pr

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• When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Creativity, Errors, Play

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• Around the world, we see the results of exploitation which destroys much without taking future generations into account. Protecting the world's forests; stemming desertification and erosion; avoiding the spread of toxic substances harmful to man, animals and plants; protecting the atmosphere; all these can be accomplished only through active and wise cooperation, without borders or political power plays.

  Pope John Paul II

  Wise, Men, Animal

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• Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain, they know just where to stick the dynamite. With a few small power plays - a skeptical comment, the withholding of approval or praise - a mother can devastate a daughter. Decades of subtle undermining can stunt a daughter, or so monopolize her energy that she in effect stunts herself. Muted, fearful, riddled with self-doubt, she can remain trapped in daughterhood forever, the one place she feels confident she knows the rules.

  Rebecca Walker

  Daughter, Mother, Emotional

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• Phone calls are much more personal than texting and then when you get a girl on the phone, it's like you ask a question and you get a response back. For a text message, they can read it and get back to it whenever they want to. So that makes a difference, almost like a power play in a way.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Girl, Play, Differences

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• History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is what we make of it; its moral use. By writing history, we can widen readers' thinking and deepen their sympathies in every direction. Perhaps history should show us not how to control the world, but how to enlarge, deepen, and discipline ourselves.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

  Gretel Ehrlich (1989). “Heart Mountain”, Vintage

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• For me, bullfighting was this very spiritual engagement with power, with power and death. You're pitting yourself against a force that's stronger than you and then you're winning or losing. It's power, a power play.

  Bette Ford

  Spiritual, Winning, Play

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.

  George Michael

  Play, Want, Freak

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's not about being a sex prostitute. It's about this power play in the war of the sexes. It's a rat race, like, "I'm in charge," "No, I'm in charge."

  Lykke Li

  Sex, War, Race

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It is a damned sight easier to start wars than to end them. This truth has been stated for as long and as often as it has been ignored. High time and thank God, we are at least moving toward de-escalation in Vietnam. The road to extrication will be long, painful, bitter. But it must be trod. We are so bogged down in Vietnam that we cannot respond effectively anywhere else in the world to a military power play except through atomic bombardment.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Military, War, Moving

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• When you're playing with only 13 guys, and is on the power play 12 times, that'll wear you down.

  Mark Richards

  Play, Guy, Columbus

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• You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.

  Carl Hagelin

  Hurt, Team, Games

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• Your power play can win you games, and your penalty killers can save you games.

  Emile Francis

  Sports, Winning, Games

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• I don't think you can really expect to win a hockey game giving up three power-play goals. In reality, you cant give up those and that's the difference in the hockey game.

  Randy Carlyle

  Giving Up, Hockey, Winning

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• OTHERBOUND is a web of spells and counterspells, but Corinne Duyvis never loses sight of the bodies, minds and all-too-human emotions that absorb the impact of the magical power-plays. It's an action-packed tale of passion, possession and hair-raising leaps from world to world. As you read it, remember to keep breathing.

  Margo Lanagan

  Passion, Impact, Hair

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• Because he stinks on the power play. He stinks. I don't know why. I wish I could put him on the power play, but every time I put him on, he stinks.

  John Tortorella

  Hockey, Play, Wish

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• And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

  Paul Ryan

  Elderly, Play, Obamacare

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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