Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bono

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.

We don't have the power to stop (Dominique) and Florida.

William Henry Moody

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

Anna Akana

The power of makeup is incredible, but the power of you is cray cray.

Kate Christensen

Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.

Mads Mikkelsen

There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can make a scene even more powerful and precise without dialogue.

Rick Perry

We have the power to make things new again. To project American strength again, to get our economy going again.

Preston Brooks

If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.

Patricia McCormick

The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.

We have the power to win back Congress. Yesterday proved it.

James Salter

Written pages are something that can be returned to, reclaimed, and when they are marvelous, never lose their power.

Abigail Adams

What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?

Aberjhani

At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.

Aaron Koblin

An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.

Aaron Klug

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

A. J. Jacobs

There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one

A. Philip Randolph

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

A. S. Byatt

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

Sarah Churchwell

In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline - on the course, at any rate. That discipline was the source of his power.

Abbie Hoffman

It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.

Aeschylus

Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.

Aeschylus

Excessive fear is always powerless.

Adrienne Rich

In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.

Adrian Rogers

The church persecuted is the church pure, and the church pure is the church powerful. I believe that Americans by and large have been cursed with blessings, and perhaps before long we'll be blessed with cursings. However, the assaults against the church will be turned around, and everything that the enemy meant for harm will ultimately be used for good.

Adam Smith

The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

Adam Smith

The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition . . . is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.

Adam Smith

The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance, capable not only of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting 100 impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.

Adam Pally

I moved around a lot as a kid, and when you're always entering new places at that age, you kind of have to learn how to adapt yourself, and I felt a really powerful way to do that was to make people laugh.

Adam Michnik

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

Adam McKay

All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

Adam Gopnik

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

Achim Steiner

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