Power Quotes

• I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

  

  John Burns
  • Help
  • Desire
  • Hand

• I'm not patient at all. I avoid writer's block by writing. I power through with a bad version, so I can move on, and usually once I've gotten to the next scene, I'll discover what was missing from the bad version scene. Then I can easily rewrite it to get back on the right path.

  

  Anders Holm
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Path

• America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • America
  • Dog
  • Strength

• We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.

  

  Franz von Papen
  • Power
  • Soul

• Without the music to shout over, few people bothered saying anything.' (Remarking on a power cut while in a bar in the Dominican Republic)

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • People
  • Music
  • Power

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

  

  Brian Grazer
  • Power
  • Movie

• Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

  

  Jean Genet
  • May
  • Gun
  • Shadow

• Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he's been very good at acquiring it - political power, economic power, military power, territorial power.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Political

• Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

  

  Mark Crispin Miller
  • Power

• Education is everything - education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.

  

  Ciara
  • Life
  • Power
  • Education

• We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Dying
  • Safety

• 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
  • Power
  • Light
  • Air

• Nike believes in a world where everyone celebrates the power of diversity.

  

  Mark Parker
  • World
  • Power
  • Diversity

• The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • People
  • Power
  • Endurance

• Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Inferior
  • Potency
  • Impotent

• The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.

  

  Kit Harington
  • People
  • Power

• The world and that which, by another name, men have thought good to call Heaven (under the compass of which all things are covered), we ought to believe, in all reason, to be a divine power, eternal, immense, without beginning, and never to perish.

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Desire
  • Common
  • Office

• The United States armed forces and coalition troops deserve recognition and support for their work to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and ensure the safety and security of the American people, civilians abroad, and the people of Iraq.

  

  Mark Kennedy
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

  

  Liz Smith
  • Power
  • Hope

• The power of the computer is starting to spread.

  

  Bill Budge
  • Power

• The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Audience

• I never underestimate the power of hot rollers for your hair and eyelash curlers for your eyelashes.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Power
  • Hair

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