Famous Quotes
- And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.
- Ayrton Senna on Power
- And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.
- And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
- Camille Paglia on Power
- Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
- Charles Babbage on Power
- Any form of art is a form of power it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
- Ossie Davis on Power
- Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
- Abraham Lincoln on Power
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
- Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
- Jean De La Fontaine on Power
- Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
- Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Power
- Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.
- Alvin Adams on Power
- Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
- Abigail Adams on Power
- Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
- George Washington on Power
- Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
- Jean Anouilh on Power
- Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
- Harvey Fierstein on Power
- As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
- Barack Obama on Power
- As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. It's hard to find those men.
- Jessica Simpson on Power
- As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
- Thomas Aquinas on Power
- As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.
- Dee Dee Myers on Power
- As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
- Toni Morrison on Power
- Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.
- Christy Turlington on Power
- 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.
- Tom Stoppard on Power
- Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.
- Rush Limbaugh on Power
- Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.
- Harry Segall on Power
- Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz on Power
- Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
- Beauty is power a smile is its sword.
- Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
- Ambrose Bierce on Power
- Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.
- Michael Jackson on Power
- Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
- John Adams on Power
- Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
- William J. Clinton on Power
- Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
- Liam Neeson on Power
- Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
- Peace Pilgrim on Power
- Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Power
- Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.
- Gwen Stefani on Power
- Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher on Power
- Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
- Tony Robbins on Power
- Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
- Viktor E. Frankl on Power
- Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.
- Dee Dee Myers on Power
- Biology always beats will power.
- Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
- Stokely Carmichael on Power
- Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
- Huey Newton on Power
- Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.
- Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
- Thomas Hughes on Power
- Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.
- Jeff Goodell on Power
- Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
- Marsha Sinetar on Power
- Business is in itself a power.
- Garet Garrett on Power
- But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.
- Marco Rubio on Power
- But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power.
- Joshua Chamberlain on Power
- But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
- Amelia Barr on Power
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