Power Quotes
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There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better.
Vernon Lee
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There's a magical energy and power from the ocean. I was born in a room overlooking the sea, in the middle of a storm. Perhaps, then, it's not surprising that shores touch my soul. Science might disagree, but I think there's a difference in the air on a coast - the positive ions, perhaps.
Jo Beverley
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When once you have plunged into the strife for power, it is the fear of those who are seeking for power over you that so easily persuades to all the great crimes.
Auberon Herbert
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Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
David Souter
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The moment you accept responsibility for EVERYTHING in your life, is the moment you gain the power to change ANYTHING in your life.
Hal Elrod
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The world needs divine power in every human being the recognition of which is the secret to all success and happiness
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.
Ali Abdullah Saleh
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The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.
Derek Fisher
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It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.
Mariska Hargitay
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Nowadays you don't get to see composition in a movie because nobody ever keeps the camera still long enough to see it. Actors don't have the thrill and the power of working with space.
Allison Anders
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Faith is the eternal elixir. It gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought.
Napoleon Hill
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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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Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.
Bentley Little
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
Frederick Douglass
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That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
Billie Jean King
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It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.
Charles Tupper
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It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.
S. D Gordon
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Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure became one of the richest snake oil salesmen ever to live, selling a diet that promises to help you lose weight, to keep your heart healthy and to normalize your blood pressure.
T. Colin Campbell
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Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me - the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.
Barbara Kruger
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With the Savior's power and light we will be enabled to push back the darkness of the world.
Neill F. Marriott
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There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
Matt Taibbi
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You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.
George R. R. Martin
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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
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You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.
Napoleon Hill