Power Quotes

• If you're wondering where the Lord is, At this very hour, I tell you he's alive and well, With resurrection power!..

  

  Carmen Domenic Licciardello
  • Power
  • Lord
  • Wondering

• I do think that some of my songs, like Take a Minute, are like the train between the two worlds. It starts out with the question of "how did Gandhi ever withstand the hunger strikes and all / he didn't do it to gain power or money as I recall," and its sweep reaches all the way to this part of the world. I think maybe I'm a translator, because I lived in both worlds and truly understand them. I understand the discontent that comes from not having. But I also understand the anxiety that comes from wealth and convenience.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Money

• When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

  

  Epictetus
  • People
  • Power
  • Interpretation

• We have an active program. We have nuclear weapons, we are a nuclear power. We have an advanced missiles program.

  

  Ayub Khan
  • Power

• Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I'm not going to do that. That takes away my power. I'm not going to compromise who I am.

  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • Power

• Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • People
  • Power

• The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn't even a worldwide governing board to hold all the various Orthodox bodies together.

  

  Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • Power
  • Together
  • High

• Astrology is a science in itself and contains an illuminating body of knowledge. It taught me many things and I am greatly indebted to it. Geophysical evidence reveals the power of the stars and the planets in relation to the terrestrial. In turn, astrology reinforces this power to some extent. This is why astrology is like a life-giving elixir to mankind.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Why
  • Science

• Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Environment
  • Exercise
  • Rebel

• One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

  

  Francoise Sagan
  • Power
  • Laughter

• In one of the temptations Satan offers to give Jesus all the kingdoms of the world, that is, the kingdoms and the related political power. …

  

  Jacques Ellul
  • World
  • Political
  • Jesus

• Our duty as journalists is to use our clarity - and our imagination - to build hope in the societies in which we work. Our duty is to keep holding power to account, and to fight for press freedom around the world.

  

  Katharine Viner
  • World
  • Work
  • Hope

• That mighty Being, who heaped up these craggy rocks, and reared these stupendous mountains, and poured out these streams in all directions, and scattered immortal beings throughout these deserts - He is present, by the influence of his Holy Spirit, and accompanies the sound of the gospel with converting, sanctifying power.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Up
  • Power
  • Present

• Inequality saps the economy by draining the buying power of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, forcing them to rely on debt to fund education, housing, and health care.

  

  George Packer
  • Power
  • Education
  • Health

• No dictator can last forever. History shows that in the end, people around the dictator bring about change. Of course, a lot of high-ranking officials don't want change because they want to keep power. But there are other good people who want change. I believe they are waiting for the chance.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.

  

  Jane Seymour
  • God
  • Believe
  • Different

• How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances...The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action in man!

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Soul

• The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Power
  • Wisdom
  • Creation

• Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.

  

  Deborah Eisenberg
  • People
  • Political
  • Communication

• Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.

  

  Plato
  • Power
  • Beliefs
  • Neutralize

• I don't have much power to make many films, but I do have the power in what roles I choose.

  

  Lauren Ashley Carter
  • Power

• I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • God
  • Power
  • Sick

• Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Free

• The land is ours. I will do everything in my power, forever, to fight against a Palestinian state being founded in the Land of Israel.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Fighting
  • Forever
  • Land

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