Quotes about power
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You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build. George R. R. Martin
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Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.
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If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets? Graham Moore
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Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will. Alexander Hamilton
power voice
There is power in the people. If you're not there, your voice will be missed.
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The power went out for us at 9 p.m., Stephen Hill
power voice
The power of her voice right now is huge.
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When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do. Robert Caro
power shot
When you have a five-minute power play and you don't get a shot on goal, that deflates you.
power elements finance
Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism. Karl Marx
power office desire
Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation. William O. Douglas
power skating stars start tour
This tour is power packed with skating stars from start to finish.
powerful thinking influence
I don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn't really escape the influence. Paul Simon
powerful law justice
Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.
powerful thinking pale
Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.
powerful writing southern
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. Robert Morgan
powerful choices unexpected
One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.
powerful talking way
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
power want be-here-now
The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible. Ram Dass
powerful perception important
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
power stop
We will do everything in our power to stop it.
power sure transition
We will do everything in our power to make sure that transition is a comfortable one. Roger Martin
powerful stuff expecting
Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it. Kurt Vonnegut
power-of-music prove wanted
I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music. David Bowie
powerful dark night
Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives. David Eddings
powerful real dark
I like dark, dramatic roles; they're just really powerful and real. Daveigh Chase
powerful persistence our-words
For many of us, conversion is an ongoing process and not a onetime event that results from a powerful or dramatic experience. Line upon line and precept upon precept, gradually and almost imperceptibly, our motives, our thoughts, our words, and our deeds become aligned with the will of God. Conversion unto the Lord requires both persistence and patience. David A. Bednar
powerful people joining
Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful. Dave Grohl
powerful war world
War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down. David Wong
powerful loneliness assessment
The English language needs a word for that feeling you get when you badly need help, but there is no one you can call because you're not popular enough to have friends, not rich enough to have employees, and not powerful enough to have lackeys. It is a very distinct cocktail of impotence, loneliness and a sudden stark assessment of your non-worth to society? Enturdment?
powerful ideas world
The most powerful thing in the world is an idea. David O. McKay
powerful commitment swings
The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but dont fix the underlying problems. David Malpass
powerful world computer
Although computer chips now are thinner, they're more powerful, they're not as reliable. You'd harvest computer chips from the 1980s from all around the world because they're reliable. Danny Boyle