Power Quotes
-
A deposit insurance system is like a nuclear power plant. If you build it without safety precautions, you know it’s going to blow you off the face of the earth. And even if you do, you can’t be sure it won’t.
-
I've done truth to power all my life. It's got me into trouble, but who cares?
-
The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.
-
In circumstances where the law of force prevails, where security depends on power alone, the weakest party is naturally the most busy to place itself in a posture of defense.
-
The power of procreation is spiritually significant. Misuse of this power subverts the purposes of the Father's plan and of our mortal existence. Our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son are creators and have entrusted each of us with a portion of Their creative power.
-
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
-
Somewhere along the line, music became 'content'... It's my full intention to bring it back to music again! I believe in the power of song.
-
It lies not in our power to love or hate,For will in us is overruled by fate.
-
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
-
The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.
-
Where educators are raising and combining their voices, the seeds of positive change have emerged. Collective voice, exercised through the union, is power - the power to drive real change for our kids, families and communities.
-
Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
-
People ask how hard it can be sitting down for work during a 500-mile race? Well, without power steering or power brakes, holding onto 650 horses in a car that has nearly 3,000 pounds of downforce and can produce up to 4Gs vertically and laterally can be extremely tough - even sitting down.
-
My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.
-
There has to be that feeling in a good villain - that he's awesome, he has his own power; that he is, in several senses, unstoppable.
-
The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.
-
My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good.
-
I think 'The Wire' is my all-time favorite TV show. It's so brilliant, the way it critiques society, and how it handles that everybody who gets power loses their moral code and stops going to the root of the problem and just tries to maintain their own power.
-
A living body is not merely an integration of limbs and flesh but it is the abode of the soul which potentially has perfect perception (Anant-darshana), perfect knowledge (Anant-jnana), perfect power (Anant-virya), and perfect bliss (Anant-sukha).
-
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
-
Everyone has a part to play. We have the power. You can do it.
-
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
-
Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.
-
The only power you have is the word no.
