Power Quotes

• The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Power
  • Limits
  • Plants

• By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Good
  • Work
  • Free

• Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Great
  • Power

• Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

  

  Friedrich List
  • Power
  • Relationship

• All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

  

  Francis Thompson
  • Power
  • Star
  • Flower

• This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Time
  • Good
  • Community

• I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Today
  • Alone

• I believe the power to make money is a gift of God … to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.

  

  John D. Rockefeller
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• I play baseball - 'The Show' - a lot. I'm pretty good at that. I go 'Road to the Show,' where you build your own player. I build myself when I used to play as a center fielder. Power, speed, stealing bases.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Myself

• Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Society
  • Control
  • Sex

• I do support artists standing by their beliefs, and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music, while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted, or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Done

• Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Struggle

• What shall we say of the Intelligence that plans all this? Can the Creator be less than the creature? Shall we not say that Intelligence is indestructible, and its measure is its Power to adapt means to ends? Intelligence, Matter, Energy - nature's trinity in her manifestations.

  

  Elisha Gray
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Energy

• We are so reliant on power and technology for everything.

  

  Billy Burke
  • Power
  • Technology

• The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Great
  • Power
  • Red

• But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity

  

  G. B. Caird
  • Sincerity
  • Vices
  • Demonic

• The [Hobby Lobby Supreme Court] ruling raises the question of why, uniquely in the industrialized world, Americans have for so long favored an arrangement in health insurance that endows their employers with the quasi-parental power to choose the options that employees may be granted in the market for health insurance.

  

  Uwe Reinhardt
  • World
  • Long
  • Why

• Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Friends
  • Girl
  • Change

• You should not do everything in your power to make reviewers cranky before - right before they see your movie.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • Power
  • Movie

• Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • School
  • Brain
  • Imagination

• Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.

  

  Leroy Hood
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Community

• The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Power
  • Past
  • Project

• Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Power
  • Should
  • Responsible

• Not the individual man nor a single generation by its own power can erect the bridge that leads to God. Faith is the achievement of many generations, and effort accumulated over many centuries. … There is a collective memory of God in the human spirit, and it is this memory which is the main source of our faith.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Faith
  • Single

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