Power Quotes
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Our rational minds often attempt to minimise or negate the mystical encounters. We forget the power of our experiences. We must embrace the reality of that event, which is a miracle.
Brian Weiss
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Power may be defined as the production of intended effects.
Bertrand Russell
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Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.
Jerry Yang
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The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
James F. Cooper
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Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy.
Dan Webster
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The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.
J. G. Holland
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An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.
Ken Stott
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I respond to authenticity and originality, and I've been a fan of Don Winslow's ever since 'The Power Of The Dog.'
Chuck Hogan
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We all have so much more power to make our dreams a reality - and love life along the way - than we think we do!
Rachele Brooke Smith
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We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don't know.
Peter Jennings
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Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.
Elinor Ostrom
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While I am a huge proponent of us as Africans telling our own stories and countering the negative stereotypes out there since no one else will, I am also cognizant of the power that the mainstream Western media still has on shaping perceptions of the continent.
Ory Okolloh
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We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.
Lewis H. Lapham
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I know the power of going to Mount St. Helens, and to see that level of devastation is quite something - the power of tsunamis, etc. But it's human cruelty, the base level of humanity, that scares me most.
John Hillcoat
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A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.
Evan Esar
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Bertrand Russell
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This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.
Barack Obama
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You shouldn't overestimate the power of a single judge.
Udo Di Fabio
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If she chuses to set free one or two of my slaves she is to have full power to do so.
Patrick Henry
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I love all girl squads. I'm all for, like, girl power and friendship, and I'm all about that.
Poppy Delevingne
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I'd say people recognize me, but having children recognize me is the best. It is a very special thing. Suddenly you feel like you have the power to make the children's dreams come true, and it's better than anything else.
Ludivine Sagnier
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We have helped to organize the United Nations. We believe it will stop aggressor nations from starting wars. Because we believe it, we intend to support the United Nations organization with all the power and resources we possess.
James F. Byrnes
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Well, it's a problem in general with the American military. If you are the biggest and the strongest military power in the world, you have this natural reluctance to learn the quirky ways of the natives in faraway lands.
Yaroslav Trofimov