Power Quotes
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Donald Trump abuses his power, games the system, puts his own interests ahead of the country's.
Hillary Clinton
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America, a country that is no longer contained by physical borders, aspires only for more power and control. I want to maximize my usefulness and advocate for the preservation of biodiversity and the pursuit of human decency within my sphere of influence.
Anohni
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God does not give beforehand the grace with which to bear His blows; He does not heal before he smites. In your terror at the thought of parting with Horace, you left entirely out of account the sustaining power that would hold you up and bear you through those awful moments; you suffered in advance, and wholly in your own strength. But how many, how many persons I have heard say, ‘I am a marvel to myself! This blow, so long dreaded, has not slain me, as I ever believed it would; I stagger under it, but I live to wonder at the strength God gives me, and in which I bear it.
Elizabeth Prentiss
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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
Susan L. Taylor
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She was alive. She was alive, and she had found her power — or it had found her. Tomorrow’s problems she’d take care of tomorrow.
Elizabeth Bear
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The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.
Bill Gates
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Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.
Thomas Carlyle
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'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.
Michel Foucault
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Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn't matter. What matters is power.
Judith Tarr
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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
O. Henry
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Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.
Homer
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
Hippocrates
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I had hurt her feelings, I found out later; I didn’t know I had that power.
Ned Vizzini
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“When we consider the works of creation, and think of the power manifested in them, we are contemplating the power of redemption.”
Ellet J. Waggoner
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You've never in your life seen a horse run like this! He's all power - all beauty.
Walter Farley
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No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'
Ezra Taft Benson
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I believe in the power of one.
Gary Hirshberg
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I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?
Benjamin Carson
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Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The only limit to the power of Almighty God lies within you & me.
Kathryn Kuhlman
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No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change.
Bill Phillips
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
Honore de Balzac
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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When journalists forget that our job is to question and annoy those in power, there can be huge consequences.
Jorge Ramos