Power Quotes
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Listing and counting have a spooky, magical power, and the holiday season is a spooky, magical time.
Elif Batuman
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People are beginning to realize that education is power, that education is money, that education is an opportunity.
Azim Premji
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We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Patrick Henry
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The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
Anita Hill
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I'm interested in exploring how an individual maintains a sense of power in a world that tends to make individuals feel powerless.
George C. Wolfe
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Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
Pythagoras
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Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.
James Q. Wilson
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Partnerships like those remind us that the relationship between nations is not just defined by governments, but is defined by people - especially the young people who will determine the future long after those of us who are currently in positions of power leave the stage.
Barack Obama
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A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.
T.A. Barron
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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I used to think that the British press were particularly awful to Cherie Blair. I think Blair's foreign policy was a complete disaster, but the British press, when they wanted to explain why Blair took unexpected moves, they did create Cherie as the power behind the throne.
Mary Beard
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I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match to my writing ability.
Dan Hill
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When you have done everything that you can do, surrender. Give yourself up to the power and energy that's greater than yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
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I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.
Katherine Paterson
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The basis for all human relationships and where we derive our greatest strength and power, trust is single-handedly the most powerful source of positive energy and, once in place, unlocks a freedom and peace to explore.
Angela Ahrendts
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If anyone tries to bully you don’t let them. Take the positive energy form a ball of rainbow power and just, like shove it.
Ariana Grande
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I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.
Alan Parsons
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The power of 'no' means you're educating people in how to treat you.
Jessica Chastain
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Some of the metaphors you find in 'Wicked' - how those in power can exploit fear in others to maintain their power - I think, as Jews, we've seen that historically on more than one occasion.
Marc Platt
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The man is meant to be the alpha in the relationship on the money and power front.
Jamie Dornan
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Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.
H. Rap Brown
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The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after God, whose eye is single to God, and in whom by the power of God's Spirit the flesh and the world have been crucified, and his ministry is like the generous flood of a life-giving river.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
Elia Kazan
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My strokes are safer when I hit full power. They are unsafe when I hold back; it's more that I force myself to go full power all the time.
Dominic Thiem