Power Quotes
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I'm saying, let's learn to reacquire a respect for the power of guns. This culture is so indifferent and disrespectful of guns that we should be terrified.
Christopher McQuarrie -
The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.
Christopher Alexander
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Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires.
Mario Vargas Llosa -
I'm after the bucks because bucks give you the power, power gives you the freedom, and freedom lets you send money home to your mother.
Jamie Farr -
For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.
Rachel Carson -
Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Bruce Lee
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The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.
Bobby Seale -
Investors are impatient and they are also desperate for the 'next big thing,' and they are not paying attention to the fact that the 'next big thing' can be an economic crisis that they have created by being very irresponsible with their power.
Carmen Busquets -
'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack at will.
Jack Keane -
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
Quintilian -
The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.
J. B. Bury
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Outstanding American men seem to see power as something you use in order to correct someone who's wrong, to change them, to show them you see more in this situation than the boss does. Outstanding American women, on the other hand, see power as a resource, something you can use to get people together, to gain commitment.
David McClelland -
Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
Ice Cube -
It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.
Naomi Wolf -
We are not depending on a reed shaken by the wind, but on the Priniciple of Life Itself, for all that we have or ever shall need. It is not some Power, or a great Power, it is all power.
Ernest Holmes -
The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.
Oskar Kokoschka
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There's more power in the simpler things, I think.
Robin Trower Procol Harum -
True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.
Joy Harjo -
The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life.
Keith Haring -
I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.
Oprah Winfrey