Power Quotes
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The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.
Jorge Ramos -
I think models have a lot less power than they did in the '80s, when there were, like, only 10 supermodels who could dictate the rules, whereas now there's so many, and that changes the power dynamic and makes it a more insecure business.
Lily Cole
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In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.
Albert Camus -
The Canadian power line is going to industrialize Patagonia, and it is going to discount the one economic card the region has to play, which is the tourism.
Douglas Tompkins -
You can't put an age on power.
Scott Coker -
Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning pages, and being able to underline passages and not worrying about dropping them in the bath or running out of power. I also find print books objects of beauty.
Joanne Rowling -
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men do, what I read, I should have been able to call myself an educated man. But that power I have never possessed. Something is always left--something dim and inaccurate--but still something sufficient to preserve the taste for more. I am inclined to think that it is so with most readers.
Anthony Trollope -
A government, a regime that is not willing to slaughter large numbers of its own citizens to stay in tyrannical power will lose power.
Alan Charles Korsun
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Do the thing and the power will come.
Thomas A. Edison -
France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.
Thomas Sowell -
An important part of responsibility is to not neglect it. I wonder how often we have neglected the authority Jesus has given us by not applying His power to illness, weather, poverty or other life situations that He expects us, as His agents, to deal with? I wonder how many people Jesus heals directly because we do not participate? Worse yet, how many go unhealed because we who have been commissioned to operate in Jesus’ authority and power have neglected our responsibility?
Charles H. Kraft -
Writing must always have intention because words have power.
Suheir Hammad -
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
Anthony Robbins -
Things are going better: there is more growth, less deficit, more competitiveness, better margins for companies, more purchasing power for workers.
Francois Hollande
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People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.
Cesare Pavese -
Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, The passion and infirmity of age.
James Anthony Froude -
I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.
Tom Cruise -
For my part, if I had the power I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period - with a possible exception in the case of the Creation.
Ernest Newman -
Power isn't real, and it isn't earned. If you act like you have it, suddenly you're leading everyone. Perception is reality.
Alexandra Pelosi -
I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.
Muhammad Ali
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I noticed long ago that Amin has the tendency to concentrate power in his own hands but I did not attach any particular significance to this. However, recently this tendency has become dangerous.
Nur Muhammad Taraki -
It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.
Alexander Crummell -
Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.
Anthony Robbins -
What are the sciences but maps of universal laws, and universal laws but the channels of universal power; and universal power but the outgoings of a universal mind?
Edward Thomson