Power Quotes
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Some of these actresses or public personas who are very public about their disciplined diets, more power to them. I just don't see the point. I'm just not going to be one of those people photographed in a bikini where people are like, 'OMG, look at Amy!' I mean, it might be OMG, but not for the reasons I want.
Amy Adams
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All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the government of the point at which it will meet with resistance.
Lysander Spooner
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Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
Nicholson Baker
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The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
James F. Cooper
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Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.
Marianne Williamson
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Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.
Jeff Goodell
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It's not a question of how much power you can hoard for yourself, but how much you can give away.
Benjamin Zander
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I love the magic of stories and the power of stories.
David Grann
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People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.
Rachel Holmes
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There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
J. G. Holland
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Will power is human electricity. You have enough of this electricity generated in you to achieve the greatest things in life if you will keep the current on.
Elsie Lincoln Benedict
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We can have enough clean energy to power every home.
Hillary Clinton
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Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.
Winona LaDuke
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The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.
James Madison
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Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.
Louise Mensch
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When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.
Jimmy Reid
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This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.
Agathon
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Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Bolsheviks did not seize power; they picked it up.
Adam Ulam
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For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
Bill Moyers
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He hath no power that hath not power to use.
Philip James Bailey
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God Who delivers us from the guilt of sin through faith in Jesus Christ, is able to deliver the believer from the power of sin as well.
J. Edwin Orr
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Yes, I am very lucky, but I have a little theory about this. I have noticed through experience and observation that providence, nature, God, or what I would call the power of creation seems to favor human beings who accept and love life unconditionally, and I am certainly one who does with all my heart.
Arthur Rubinstein
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Wouldn't it be awesome if we had a jetpack that wasn't a death trap? The problem is that it is going to be so power inefficient. I just couldn't live with that... it would be as loud as a motorcycle.
Astro Teller