Power Quotes

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.

The women are at an advantage - we represent the buying power in this country.

I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into 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.

On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.

Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.