Quotes about power
powerful mean long
As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held by a leash; you can only fly so far. Francois Fenelon
powerful self hands
We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.
powerful faithful arms
We are never less alone than when we are in the society of a single, faithful friend; never less deserted than when we are carried in tne arms of the All-Powerful.
powerful silence sound
The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects. Frank Darabont
powerful fighting bipolar
Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever. Frank Bruno
powerful character president
I was lucky enough to be in some movies where I had powerful characters or I got to be the president on TV for a little while. Very short administration. Geena Davis
powerful feelings painful
I’ve been feeling something else. Like I’m about to be sucked into something powerful and painful. Gayle Forman
power weakness illusion
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? Lois McMaster Bujold
powerful stupid alternatives
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
powerful distance player
To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is the closest we can get to a calibrated answer to the question 'How big am I?' More than the size of an executive's office or even his title, which no one remembers anyway, the fewer people between the player and a 'yes,' the more powerful he is. Lynda Obst
power information tents
Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.
powerful order true-power
True power is invisible and impeccable, like good taste. It is never clumsy or artless. Powerful people whisper, suggest, seduce, in order to coerce. They only use volume for effect. This is how you can tell a blowhard from a mogul. ... Most powerful people don't need to coerce; their mere presence is coercive.
powerful moving opportunity
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. Lyndon B. Johnson
powerful future space
The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the air age we were powerful because we had airplaines. Now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space.
powerful puppets strings
Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.
powerful hands sky
The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
powerful political knows
I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?
powerful psychology logic
In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic. Ludwig Quidde
powerful too-much spheres
Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere. Lucy Stone
powerful simple people
Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make Louise Penny
powerful prayer believe
I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe. Loretta Young
power years shade
Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power. Lord Byron
powerful gold saint
The god of the world is the gold and the silver. The world worships this god. It is all-powerful to them, though they might not be willing to acknowledge it. Now, it is designed, in the providence of God, that the Latter-day Saints should show whether they have so far advanced in the knowledge, in the wisdom and in the power of God that they cannot be overcome by the god of the world. We must come to that point. We have also got to reach another standard, a higher plane: we have got to love God more than we love the world, more than we love gold or silver, and love our neighbor as ourselves Lorenzo Snow
power carried-away
Those carried away by power are soon carried away. Malcolm Forbes
power authority
Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers).
powerful opportunity outliers
Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities. Malcolm Gladwell
powerful social source
Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.
powerful attitude our-world
Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.
powerful hard-work trials
What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily.
powerful law phrases
There's this powerful phrase in the legal world, "Difficult cases make bad law." The exception is the difficult case. You can't generalize them by definition. So although they are fascinating, they don't solve any problem because they're so one of a kind.
powerful taken eye
She explained that the bullet had entered through the side of my left eye where there was a scar, traveled eighteen inches down to my left shoulder and stopped there. It could have taken out my eye or gone into my brain. It was a miracle I was alive. Malala Yousafzai
powerful book gun
I thought that words and books and pens were more powerful than guns.
powerful cancer home
Then they told me about the call from home and that they were taking the threats seriously. I don't know why, but hearing I was being targeted did not worry me. It seemed to me that everyone knows they will die one day. My feeling was nobody can stop death; it doesn't matter if it comes from a Talib or cancer. So I should do whatever I want to do.