Famous Quotes

"Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now."

Margaret Atwood on Power

More quotes about Power

• "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

  Abraham Lincoln on Power

• "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

  Margaret Thatcher on Power

• "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

  Bruce Lee on Power

• "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Power

• "Character is power."

  Booker T. Washington on Power

More quotes by Margaret Atwood

• "Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

• "I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own."

• "Gardening is not a rational act."

• "I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

• "The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love."