Power Quotes

• Ernest Rutherford's 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry wasn't given for the nuclear power station - he wouldn't have survived that long - it was given for showing how interesting atomic physics could be.

  

  Andre Geim
  • Long
  • Power
  • Interesting

• The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world.

  

  Babette Deutsch
  • World
  • Men
  • True

• A commander should have a profound understanding of human nature, the knack of smoothing out troubles, the power of winning affection while communicating energy, and the capacity for ruthless determination where require by circumstances. He needs to generate an electrifying current, and to keep a cool head in applying it.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Nature
  • Energy
  • Cool

• 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
  • God
  • Nature
  • Strong

• Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

  

  Xenocrates
  • Excellence
  • Possession
  • Subservient

• Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Work
  • Women
  • High

• All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

  

  Amar Bose
  • Power
  • Military

• There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Power
  • Health

• Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Power
  • Freedom

• I've figured out the secret. Your mind is your power; you have to work with your mind and work with your own thoughts about your own life. If you spend so much time thinking, "This industry is male-dominated. It's sexist. It's this. It's that," then that's what the picture will always be. I remember when I was coming up, I didn't have those thoughts. My mom told me I could be whatever I wanted to be and I could be as bright of a star as I was meant to be. So, that's where I put all of my focus and my thought...into what I could do. And I carry that with me now.

  

  Brandy
  • Focus
  • Thoughts
  • Secret

• Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Power

• What grace could all your worldly power bringTo One whose crown of thorns has made him King,The Christ who gave His body to the flails,Who humbly bore the lance and piercing nails?Or do you fear the rabble might disgrace The One.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Power
  • Fear
  • King

• I never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in terms of wealth and position.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Prestige
  • Political endeavors
  • Economic endeavors

• Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Heart
  • Power
  • Obey

• 'Malice' wasn't about horror to start with but an underground comic driven by the power of rumour. However, as nothing fuels a rumour like fear, I decided that it had to be a frightening comic.

  

  Chris Wooding
  • Power
  • Fear

• A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • People
  • Up
  • Together

• Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Time
  • Astrology
  • Venus

• The armed forces have acted today solely from the patriotic inspiration of saving the country from the tremendous chaos into which it was being plunged by the Marxist government of Salvador Allende.… The Junta will maintain judicial power and consultantship of the Comptroller. The Chambers will remain in recess until further orders. That is all.

  

  Augusto Pinochet
  • Country
  • Today
  • Inspiration

• The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy to power their lives with anything else.

  

  Bill McKibben
  • People
  • True
  • Happy

• The founding leaders of our country believed in a three-part sharing of governmental power, with each branch jealously watching the actions of the other two.

  

  Chellie Pingree
  • Country
  • Power

• We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics.

  

  David Milne
  • Life
  • Power

• Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?

  

  Aubrey de Vere
  • Art
  • Sweet
  • Sin

• Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Power
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart
  • Power
  • Effort
  • Growth

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