Power Quotes
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What holds people together long enough to discover their power as citizens is their common inhabiting of a single place.
Daniel Kemmis -
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.
Ian Bremmer
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Right now, when you go and hit the light switch in your house, you're participating in a state-protected monopoly. You're being forced to accept dirty power from a single producer.
Van Jones -
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
Eric Hoffer -
All nature works, and then rests; works and rests. I caught its rhythm and worked and rested with it. When I felt that inertia stealing over me, I rested; and while resting my power recuperated - the tide rose in me.
Elizabeth Towne -
The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal.
John Sexton -
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George Eliot -
Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.
Claudius Claudianus
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Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.
John Milton -
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
Alan Paton -
The power of sexual attraction is a real thing.
Lela Loren -
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 -
As content creators, we're benefitting YouTube every day. YouTube couldn't do what they do without us, so do not underestimate your power.
Jason Calacanis -
Mandela's commitment to democracy was ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power
Barack Obama
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Your energy has far more power than you can even imagine. There is energy in your spoken words, in your emails, and in your physical presence.
Gabrielle Bernstein -
India's infrastructure deficit in terms of roads, railways, power, and ports needs to be addressed on a fast-track basis.
Piyush Goyal -
Members of the Congress, the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress. We are all trustees for the American people, custodians of the American heritage. It is my task to report the State of the Union - to improve it is the task of us all.
John F. Kennedy -
A utility can handle up to 20% of production from solar and that helps the grid because it produces electricity when needed. Solar power peaks in the middle of the day and that's also when air conditioning is running and businesses are operating, so power production matches usage.
Elon Musk -
The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
William Shenstone -
Those who have the most power - whether famous TV anchors, rich Hollywood moguls, judges, Members of Congress, or the president of the United States - must decide how to exert that power: for corruption or for good.
Pramila Jayapal
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Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist had a moment to develop the record visually. When the web took over and camera phones, it stripped the artists of the power to figure it out. So there's a need to bridge that gap and that's my job.
Laurieann Gibson -
Wall Street's crime, in the eyes of its classical enemies, was less its power than its morals.
John Kenneth Galbraith -
Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.
Albert Benjamin Simpson -
There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
Twyla Tharp