Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Wellstone

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

Paul Wellstone

Politics is not about power.

Paul Wellstone

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

The quieter the mind, the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.

Mary Pope Osborne

I think today's young women are an especially powerful breed. They will be taking on even greater challenges, which is why achieving personal empowerment is so important for them. These women are going to be holding positions of significant authority, owning more businesses, and shaping public policy.

Mary McLeod Bethune

We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.

Mary Oliver

Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.

Mary Oliver

I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.

Mary Oliver

Rhythm is one of the most powerful of pleasures, and when we feel a pleasurable rhythm we hope it will continue. When it does, it grows sweeter.

Martin Buber

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense activity of his work or in the restful equipoise of his forces , is powerful, involuntarily and composedly powerful, but he is not avid for power. What he is avid for is the realization of what he has in mind , the incarnation of the spirit .

Pope Benedict XVI

Advent, this powerful liturgical season that we are beginning, invites us to pause in silence to understand a presence. It is an invitation to understand that the individual events of the day are hints that God is giving us, signs of the attention he has for each one of us.

Pope John Paul II

There cannot be forgotten the great possibilities of mass media in promoting dialogue, becoming vehicles for reciprocal knowledge, of solidarity and of peace. They become a powerful resource for good if used to foster understanding between peoples, a destructive 'weapon' if used to foster injustice and conflicts.

Pierre de Fermat

To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it.

Pierre Curie

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.

Pierre Corneille

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

Pierre Corneille

Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.

Pierre Corneille

I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.

Pierre Corneille

Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.

Pierre Corneille

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

Pierre Corneille

Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.

Philippa Gregory

Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes; but this is not their tempo nor their vision and they cannot tolerate any other.

Philip Schultz

Happiness is a powerful thing. It freed me to do what I always wanted to do.

Pope Francis

Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war

Pope Francis

Prayer is all-powerful. Let us use it to bring peace to the Middle East and peace to the world.

Pope Francis

Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.

Pope Francis

Love is more powerful, love gives life, love makes hope blossom in the wilderness.

Pope Francis

The Eucharist, although it is the fullness of sacramental life, is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.

Peter McWilliams

When thought and action are combined, the results are powerful-among the most powerful forces on earth. The combination of successful communication-the sharing of thoughts-and physical action can, literally, move mountains.

Pete Carroll

I’ve learned that possibly the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fear—not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparation—you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face.

Paulo Coelho

A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.

Paulo Coelho

But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.

Paulo Coelho

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

Paulo Coelho

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.