Power - Quotes & Sayings

The songs that are on my playlist find themselves there because I can identify with the lyrics, or they have some magical transformative power in the beat.

Hilary Knight

Our power creates collective production in the service of the people and the revolution, destroys exploiting production, transforms individualistic producers into producers integrated into the collectivity.

Samora Machel

To keep ourselves grounded in the Lord's Church, we can and must train our eyes to recognize the power of the Lord in the service of those He has called. We must be worthy of the companionship of the Holy Ghost. And we need to pray for the Holy Ghost to help us know that men who lead us hold this power.

Henry B. Eyring

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

Tori Amos

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.

Dan Millman

Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so.

Stephen Kinzer

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Everett Dirksen

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

Boris Pasternak

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

E. Stanley Jones

Generally, a rally will have staying power, technicians say, if, in addition to price movements, it has heavy trading volume and breadth, meaning that several stocks rise for each stock that falls.

Alex Berenson

No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.

Joe Barton

All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.

James Buchan

A big idea is great, but putting that big idea into action has the power to change the world.

Tae Yoo

Mubarak came to power as a hero who fought bravely in Egypt's wars and headed the nation's air force.

Ahmed Zewail

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

The whole Jacket thing is so much about us playing together and creating this circle of power.

Jim James

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.

Gwen Stefani

Bill Clinton was impeached primarily for criminal conduct: lying under oath and misleading a federal grand jury about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Nixon would have been impeached for a wide array of criminal acts, as well as abuses of power.

Jonathan Turley

You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you're going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead.

Whitey Ford

It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Humans are possessed, to some degree, with the power of foresight. Yet we so often learn things the hard way, through disaster.

David Grinspoon

There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.

David Korten

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Andrew Young

While I am a huge proponent of us as Africans telling our own stories and countering the negative stereotypes out there since no one else will, I am also cognizant of the power that the mainstream Western media still has on shaping perceptions of the continent.

Ory Okolloh

For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution and are ideally suited for whichever ecosystem they inhabit, from coral reefs to the open ocean.

Brian Skerry

The wrong people will do everything in their power to guarantee that the wrong political climate will continue. It seems, then, that the wrong people ensure the wrong political climate and the wrong political climate ensures the wrong people. How then to break free of this vicious circle?

William A. Dembski

Often times, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.

John Ensign

Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.

Edgar Lee Masters

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

Denis Diderot

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Thomas Carlyle

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

David Ogilvy

I'll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you're actually doing things for truth's sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you're harmonizing with a greater power.

George Harrison

Order is power.

Henri Frederic Amiel

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.

Bernard Baruch

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Cesare Pavese

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.

Deborah Tannen

Those who have come into Formula One without experiencing cars devoid of electronic aids will find it tough. To control 800 horse power relying just on arm muscles and foot sensitivity can turn out to be a dangerous exercise.

Michael Schumacher

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

Lech Walesa

Eliminate the energy vampires in your house. Connect all of your appliances to power strips and turn them off they're when not in use.

Gretchen Bleiler

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

Pierre Corneille

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

Phaedrus

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

Barney Frank

The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.

Jorge Ramos

The power of the Internet is also its limitation - it provides access to large amounts of information without providing guidance on how to sort out what is credible and what is not.

Dean Ornish

As you submit to God more and more, you will get accustomed to being nourished by the power of truth. He is so holy that He cannot lie. God reveals His truth to His people through the Holy Spirit.

Monica Johnson

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

Georg Buchner

It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth.

Amy Cuddy

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

Edwin Land

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

Edward Thorndike