Power Quotes
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Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.
Oswald Chambers
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Jupiter is so big and its gravitational pull so strong that man would find it difficult to move about on the surface. The answer is to whittle it down to proper size with terrajets and nuclear power, using the debris to increase the size of Jupiter's moons so they, too, can be colonized.
Fritz Zwicky
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Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
Orson Pratt
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What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
Paul Wellstone
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The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.
Ramez Naam
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I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet - all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.
Florence Nightingale
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You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
W. Clement Stone
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Pain is good, I'd say, when it's incidental to Love. In 'I give up my life for my friend' it is my friend, not my death, that matters. And sometimes I needn't give up my life for him, I can live for him, and with him, and the power of the spirit is then equally manifested, I should think.
E. M. Forster
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If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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What interests us here is the assimilative power of the Hindu life order due to its legitimation of social rank.
Max Weber
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In a democracy, you can be right and still lose power.
James Wolfensohn
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We're both about defense, but I don't have the strong power he has in Joseph Jones.
Gary Blair