Quotes about power
power order fire
How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power. Margaret Thatcher
power levers very-good
I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
powerful mean gun
The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. The men in the Soviet Politburo do not have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns.
powerful being-a-woman ifs
Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.
powerful lucky
I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.
powerful believe principles
To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
powerful iron want
You turn if you want to. The Lady's not for turning.
powerful government hands
Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if the price and quality are right. The market is a more powerful and more reliable liberating force than government can ever be.
powerful iron defeat
Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word.
powerful fighting winning
I fight on. I fight to win.
powerful inspiration today
Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
powerful happy-life love-is
We must know who we are, so we can know what we want, so we don't end up wanting the wrong thing and get it and realize we don't want it, because by then it's too late. We are powerful enough that we can manifest anything into our lives. To use this power with great care and love is the secret to living a happy life. Margaret Cho
powerful believe rights
When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted.
powerful believe struggle
I don't believe in a perfect world. I don't believe it's achievable, and I believe the people who try to achieve it usually end up turning it into something like Cambodia or something very similar because purity tests set in. Are you ideologically pure enough to be allowed to live? Well, it turns out that very few people are, so you end up with a big powerful struggle and a mass killing scene. Margaret Atwood
powerful organization people
I was glad when the Invalids were executed. Some people complained that lethal injection was too humane for convicted terrorists, but I thought it sent a powerful message: We are not the evil ones. We are reasonable and compassionate. We stand for fairness, structure, and organization. It’s the other side, the uncureds, who bring the chaos. Lauren Oliver
powerful technology people
Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand. Larry Page
power ideas people
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures. Larry Wall
power community design
When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
powerful men ideas
The tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives; but in the realm of true and deep sentiments it is but a weak interpreter. These are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent. Lajos Kossuth
power advice information
Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice. Pablo Picasso
power sacred able
Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."
powerful people want
People see me in powerful roles. That's what people want to see. That's what I want to do. Paul Sorvino
powerful acceptance dna
Chaga is significant in ethnomycology, forest ecology, and increasingly in pharmacognosy. Its long-term human use and cultural eastern European and Russian acceptance should awaken serious researchers to its potential as a reservoir of new medicines, and as a powerful preventive ally for protecting DNA. Paul Stamets
powerful earth-day arrogance
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false. Paul Johnson
powerful curves
The curve is more powerful than the sword. Mae West
powerful gay men
It would be so helpful for the straight community to see men in powerful positions coming out and saying "I'm gay" so they don't have these preconceived notions that all gay men are smarmy idiots living on the street or whatever it is people think of gay men. I think it would be really helpful and productive. Madonna Ciccone
powerful target powerful-women
Powerful women are a threat in any society which is why I am such a target.
powerful aphrodisiac persons
Power is a great aphrodisiac and I am a very powerful person
powerful greed desire
The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless. Lydia Lunch
powerful fall kind
Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it. Lykke Li
power trying sound
I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny. Lucinda Williams
power levels stones
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain. Lucretius
powerful struggle men
But if anyone were to conduct his life by reason He would find great riches in living a peaceful life And being contented; one is never short of a little But men want always to be powerful and famous So that their fortune rests on a solid foundation And they can spend a placid life in opulence. There isn't a hope of it; to attain great honours You have to struggle along a dangerous way And even when you reach the top there is envy Which can strike you down like lightning into Tartarus. For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level.