Power Quotes
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I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy. One of my teachers always told me I had good power but bad control.
Jim Butcher -
I believe in the power of play.
Karen Civil
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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
Anna Deavere Smith -
And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.
DeForest Soaries -
I think a nuclear detonation is society-altering in ways that other attacks, even as horrific as 9/11, are not. This isn't because we have power-hungry political leaders, but I think it might be demanded by the people themselves out of fear.
Valerie Plame -
The Hulk was a unique character because of his strength and power. He doesn't have a costume like Spiderman or like Superman - The Hulk is more visual. His passion and his strength, that is what separates him from anything else.
Lou Ferrigno -
The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of the States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, undeniably recognizes in the people the power to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of Government.
Jefferson Davis -
A man in a position of power over me used that said power to try and take advantage of me.
Lili Reinhart
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It is my belief there is too much concentration of power and spending in Washington.
Jeff Fortenberry -
When I'm on stage, it's such a spiritual moment that I hope, even when we hit 'Fallon,' you can feel that through the TV. I have this whole horn section that's part of New Power Generation; I have an amazing crew of musicians behind me. It's their energy, too.
Liv Warfield -
A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.
Bertrand Russell -
Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.
Michael Foot -
In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.
Marianne Williamson -
Lord, my life is but a mist (James 4:14), yet through Your power, the things I give myself to can have an eternal impact. I am Your vessel
Paige Omartian
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We need a united front against Islamic State and Assad happens to be the decisive power that can fight them. But the situation is preposterous because we also have to respect the calls for change. I would be in favor of a dignified change.
Ahmed Chalabi -
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
Pierre Corneille -
Our countries have been friends dating to the very existence of the United States. France is the only power that has never been at war with the United States.
Marine Le Pen -
The first thing I would do would be to move forward with an agenda to make sure that we give D.C. the opportunity to elect its own representatives and have some political power on Capitol Hill.
Barack Obama -
The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system.
John Bates Clark -
I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over.
John Avlon
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Western civilization is passing through a social revolution unparalleled in history for scope and power. Its coming was inevitable. ...By universal consent this social crisis is the overshadowing problem of our generation.
Walter Rauschenbusch -
I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.
W. Somerset Maugham -
We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.
Andy Rooney -
The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.
Alton Brown