Famous Quotes
- It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
- Pierre De Fermat on Power
- It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
- Wayne Dyer on Power
- It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
- John Ruskin on Power
- It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
- Murray Rothbard on Power
- It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
- Winston Churchill on Power
- It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Power
- It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
- Aung San Suu Kyi on Power
- It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
- Eric Hoffer on Power
- It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
- David Brin on Power
- It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
- Sitting Bull on Power
- It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'
- Pat Robertson on Power
- It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
- Alan Cohen on Power
- It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
- Clint Eastwood on Power
- It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs.
- Rob Sheffield on Power
- It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
- Andrew Jackson on Power
- It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.
- Ben Harper on Power
- It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.
- Mariska Hargitay on Power
- It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.
- Whoopi Goldberg on Power
- It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.
- Sheryl Sandberg on Power
- It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
- Fareed Zakaria on Power
- It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?
- Glenn Danzig on Power
- It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
- Camryn Manheim on Power
- It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.
- Robert Plant on Power
- Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
- Madeleine Albright on Power
- Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.
- Jerry Saltz on Power
- Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
- Blaise Pascal on Power
- Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
- David Ogden Stiers on Power
- Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.
- Lawrence G. Lovasik on Power
- Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
- Samuel Johnson on Power
- King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.
- Cornel West on Power
- Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.
- Joseph Prince on Power
- Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
- Francis Bacon on Power
- Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
- Ralph Cudworth on Power
- Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
- Robert Staughton Lynd on Power
- Knowledge is power.
- Francis Bacon on Power
- Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
- Kofi Annan on Power
- Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
- Robin Morgan on Power
- Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
- Alvin Toffler on Power
- Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
- James Madison on Power
- Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
- Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
- Roland Barthes on Power
- Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
- Laurence Sterne on Power
- Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
- Baltasar Gracian on Power
- Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on Power
- Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
- David O. McKay on Power
- Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy.
- Simon Mainwaring on Power
- Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.
- Rush Limbaugh on Power
- Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
- George Orwell on Power
- Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Power
- Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
- Woodrow Wilson on Power
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