Famous Quotes
- I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
- John F. Kennedy on Power
- I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.
- Salma Hayek on Power
- I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on Power
- I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.
- Maurice Sendak on Power
- I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
- Fernando Flores on Power
- I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.
- David Attenborough on Power
- I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
- Robert Frost on Power
- I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
- Thomas Huxley on Power
- I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
- Thomas Hobbes on Power
- I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Power
- I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
- Camille Paglia on Power
- I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists or surrender power. It's your choice.
- Tony Blair on Power
- I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.
- Rick Warren on Power
- I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.
- Diana Ross on Power
- I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.
- Nicole Kidman on Power
- I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.
- Jill Scott on Power
- I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
- I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.
- Alanis Morissette on Power
- I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
- Eddie Vedder on Power
- I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.
- Robert Downey, Jr. on Power
- I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.
- Michael J. Fox on Power
- I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
- Barbara Kruger on Power
- I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
- Christopher Hitchens on Power
- I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
- David Bowie on Power
- I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
- Johnny Depp on Power
- I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
- Oskar Schindler on Power
- I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
- Stephen Hawking on Power
- I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .
- Anne Bronte on Power
- I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
- I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
- Daniel Day-Lewis on Power
- I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.
- Annie Lennox on Power
- I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
- Isabel Allende on Power
- I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.
- Zoe Saldana on Power
- I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
- Jack Nicholson on Power
- I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends that's the good stuff in life.
- Drew Barrymore on Power
- I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.
- Ehud Olmert on Power
- I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.
- Katherine Heigl on Power
- I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.
- Paris Hilton on Power
- I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
- Alice Walker on Power
- I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.
- Stephen King on Power
- I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
- Nate Silver on Power
- I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
- Groucho Marx on Power
- Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
- Aldous Huxley on Power
- If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
- Vinoba Bhave on Power
- If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
- Sydney J. Harris on Power
- If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
- John Stuart Mill on Power
- If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
- Thomas Aquinas on Power
- If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
- Oswald Chambers on Power
- If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.
- Emil Zatopek on Power
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