Power may justly be compared to a great river while kept within it bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it comes.
Quotes about stemmed (16 Quotes)
The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.
If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.
They met the challenge. They met it beautifully. The energy that flowed through NASA at that time, the excitement, the adrenaline, it all stemmed from the fact that space had become very crucial to the nation's reputation and strength in the world.
I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.
All the world's misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.
I often regret having come into this petty world not that I hate the world. No ... I love the world, I love high society and even the demimonde, since I'm a sort of demimondaine myself. But what have I come to do on this Earth, which is so earthly and so earthy Do I have duties to perform here have I come here to carry out a missiona commission Have I been sent here to amuse myself to enjoy myself a little ... to forget the miseries of a beyond, which I no longer remember Am I not unwelcome here What should I say to all these questions Thinking, almost from the moment of my arrival, that I was doing some good down here, I began to play a few musical airs which I myself had invented.... All my troubles stemmed from there.
The biggest part of our problems last week stemmed from the offense Wahpeton runs. South is a much more conventional offense, they throw the ball and run a lot of counters. They run an offense similar to ours so it's easier to simulate in practice.
The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.
It stemmed from a lawsuit by one of the guys who complained he was hurt on the job, ... He was working on swap time. He was on workman's comp. It's hard to insure two people at the same time when only one is working. What about the person who was supposed to be working Were we also insuring him The insurance company advised us not to do that.
The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.
That really stemmed from my frustration with the town charter. You're supposed to back off and not vote when a conflict of interest arises but that didn't happen. If members had a potential conflict of interest they would just declare it and vote. That wasn't proper.
I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.
DeLay angrily denied the charge, which he said stemmed from a political vendetta against him. I am innocent, ... I have done nothing wrong.
Our problem in the first round stemmed from a misreading from our weather station. The end result was the car having more power that it needed and losing traction. Locating the problem makes this much easier to fix. I am very encouraged going to Phoenix. I know that we can run with anyone.