Power Quotes

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

We hate those in power in Washington D.C. and anything bad that happens to them is good for us.

I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

Desire creates the power.

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. I trust in this higher power, it is what keeps me moving forward no matter what happens.

The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.