Quotes about power
power serious talking
He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power. Gary Gaetti
power women
With more women in power, the world would be better off. Sandra Tsing Loh
powerful war nuclear-disarmament
The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"
power running versatile
He has so many different running styles. On one play he's running like a scat back. On one play he's running like a power back. He's a versatile back.
powerful evil decision
You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision. Richard Dawkins
powerful google insane
This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante jovially. "It's not like you work for Google or anything. Richelle Mead
powerful political shadow
The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.
powerful hawaii territory
As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye. Troy Polamalu
powerful electronics principles
There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. Trip Hawkins
powerful adventure self
The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion. Raymond Chandler
powerful justice elements
We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice. Reinhold Niebuhr
powerful past men
One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or two. There was so much death around that life seemed almost indecent. Some men's uniforms were soaked with gobs of blood. The ground was sodden with it. I killed, too. William Manchester
powerful media conservative
The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures. William Kristol
power earth passing
A power is passing from the earth. William Wordsworth
power names imagination
Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.
powerful poetry feelings
I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.
power getting-high waste
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
powerful poetry feelings
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
powerful america errors
The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us militarily" and must therefore eventually be forced to compromise. William Shawcross
powerful book play
Comics play a trite but lusty tune on the C natural keys of human nature. They rouse the most primitive, but also the most powerful, reverberations in the noisy cranial sound-box of consciousness, drowning out more subtle symphonies. Comics scorn finesse, thereby incurring the wrath of linguistic adepts. They defy the limits of accepted fact and convention, thus amortizing to apoplexy the ossified arteries of routine thought. William Moulton Marston
powerful communication ambition
Communications and commerce are global; investment is mobile; technology is almost magical; and ambition for a better life is now universal. We earn our livelihood in peaceful competition with people all across the earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy. William J. Clinton
powerful community example
What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an inter-dependent world that is not yet an integrated global community.
powerful patriotic world
You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
powerful science data
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them. William James
power perfect individuality
Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
powerful giving vision
Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and will to take on important initiatives. Negative images of the future also have a magnetism. They pull the spirit downward in the path of despair..
power people corrupt-power
Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power. William Gaddis
powerful smell stronger
Smells are so powerful and evocative, sometimes stronger than visual cues. Will Cotton
powerful grief aphrodisiac
Grief is nature’s most powerful aphrodisiac. Will Ferrell
powerful animal personality
I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley' ceased to exist. What was left was a body and a state of raw fear so great that it swept about me like a thick, suffocating curtain, turning paralysis into a condition that seemed close to death...I died and a wild animal appeared in my place. Whitley Strieber
powerful eye russia
We have trade missions back and forth. We - we do - it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where - where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to - to our state Sarah Palin
powerful psychics two
A powerful connection between two people is a potent psychic factor that exists regardless of either person's opinion about the relationship. Sarah Ban Breathnach
powerful knowing want
The most powerful place you can come from is just having a really deep knowing of who you are and what you want for yourself. Sara Bareilles