Power Quotes

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

Clearly, this Sino-Japanese War of more than four years was a considerable burden on Japan's national power and an obstacle to the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.

Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.

'Wei' means 'future' and also 'uncertainty,' and the future really is unknown. They have said I cannot leave China because they are still investigating cases against me - for pornography, exchanging foreign currency and bigamy. It is very, very strange. I am not a criminal. They grabbed something from me because they have power.

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

For a good chunk of Israelis, it doesn't matter who is in power when it comes to dealing with the Palestinians. Their focus was more on economic issues.

All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.

No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.

Mode of providing steam power to locomotives.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.

The tribulation period is seven years, and when the signing of the covenant occurs, people who know the Bible and take it literally will know that, seven years later, Christ is going to come in His power and glory.

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired.

In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.