Power Quotes
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
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You think Trump cares if you leave? He wants power, not prosperity.
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While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right.
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I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.
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I recently had the opportunity to participate in Inc.'s first-ever 'Hire Power Awards' event in Washington, D.C. The event was a testament to the power of American entrepreneurship and the role that it plays in driving job creation and innovation in a wide array of industries.
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I'd say, for my freshman year in college, I was doing everything in my power to hide the fact that I had ever had any association with the Paul Green School of Rock Music because it was like this bruise. It was such a sore subject.
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Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.
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I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.
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Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us.
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Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.
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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
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American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
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Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.
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Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.
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I've done truth to power all my life. It's got me into trouble, but who cares?
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One of Museveni's defining early pronouncements was his diagnosis of Africa's problem. Africa's problem, he would say, was leaders who did not want to leave power.
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The greatest power is often simple patience.
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While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.
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I don't understand the concept of always trying to make F1 go slower and slower and slower and have less and less power.
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
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Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.
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No man has any influence or power for good when angry.
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The horse carries the rider with power and speed. But the rider controls the horse. Talent carries the artist to great heights with power and speed. But the artist directs his talent. That is the element of 'consciousness', of 'calculation' in the work – or whatever else one chooses to call it.
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What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
