Power Quotes
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Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power.
Chris Matthews
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Ralph had lost real power by trying to gain the appearance of power. He was a leader. But he was following a program for leaders ; therefore, he was a follower... he was, as he put it, a high-level mediocre.
Warren Farrell
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more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.
Virginia Woolf
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Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.
Fernando Pessoa
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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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I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.
Brian Lamb
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Everything that has ever happened to you has happened for you. Not one thing that has happened is wasted... You were building strength and strength x strength = POWER.
Oprah Winfrey
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I've really tried to use the power of film to effect change.
Lauren Shuler Donner
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You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good.
Harold Pinter
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Power doesn’t always roar.... The art of exerting power is an art used in doses - the more hidden it is the more effective.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
John F. Kennedy
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Certain characteristics about 'Marbury v. Madison' are, I think, indisputable. Marbury was the first Supreme Court decision ever to strike down an act of Congress as unconstitutional. Marbury stands for the authority of the Supreme Court to have and to exercise that power.
Cliff Sloan
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The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.
Enrique Iglesias
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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
Anthony Trollope
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The power of 'no' means you're educating people in how to treat you.
Jessica Chastain
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Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life.
Chad Michael Murray
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Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.
Warren Farrell
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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
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And I am convinced that a single focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar, in effect, guarding against inflation or deflation, actually creates a solid foundation for the greatest job growth and the strongest economy that America can have.
Kevin Brady
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The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.
Craig Shirley
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Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the housing projects we've got the poor people in.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
Pythagoras
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If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.
William E. Gladstone
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They are not leaders because of brilliancy. ...but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of God.
Edward McKendree Bounds