Power Quotes
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Men don't wear high heels, and they don't make allowances for women who do. Tottering down the corridors of power in beautiful but crippling stilettos telegraphs your preference for style over substance.
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India's infrastructure deficit in terms of roads, railways, power, and ports needs to be addressed on a fast-track basis.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive.
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Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.
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The Premier League, the power of it sometimes overtakes the people involved in it.
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Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,The power of beauty I remember yet.
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If you want to be a woman in power, then empower other women.
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Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.
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And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.
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The attraction of power is heady, addictive. And as we know from real life, it can be a disease. A horrific disease.
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The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.
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The American Politician has developed into the gutless master of procrastination with a maximum of non-committal statement and the barest minimum of action. This moral vacuum is exceeded only by the apathetic public who allows him to stay in power.
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Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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I believe in the power of my subconscious mind and I am going to completely harness it.
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I figured things would be better in Washington, that I'd find a lot of people I admired and belonged with. Washington is worse, Paul-Ilium to the tenth power. Stupid, arrogant, self-congratulatory, unimaginative, humorless men. And the women, Paul-the dull wives feeding on the power and glory of their husbands.
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So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.
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Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will eventually harm our nation and our allies. Every moment we delay allows him to grow stronger.
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I want the seals of power and place, The ensigns of command, Charged by the people's unbought grace, To rule my native land. Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask But from my country's will, By day, by night, to ply the task Her cup of bliss to fill.
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Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father. How important it is, then, that one of our fundamental teachings to our children is how to pray.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
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Politics is social work with power.
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Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power.
