'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

The House of Lords an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Goodness armed with power is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth or an impotence of will.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it however.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves without revelation admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle without which there would be no activity no motion.

The wonderful Mozambican people have endured tremendous misery without losing their dignity and their positive outlook on life. Moreover they have not lost their will to progress and develop. Mozambique is a country where the people never surrendered.

I always figure from the cradle to the grave we all have our individual journeys and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints such people have a corpse in their mouth.

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way The positive pronounce without dismay.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language or music without atmosphere.

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

In rap music even though the element of poetry is very strong so is the element of the drum the implication of the dance. Without the beat its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.

Once every five hundred years or so a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

I have always made my own rules in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do however believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.