Quotes about power
powerful silent most-powerful
You are most powerful when you are most silent.... Alison McGhee
powerful expectations people
You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.
powerful lying technology
As a species, we tend to lie quite a bit - to ourselves and to each other. It's a primate thing. So, a reason to go into a career in science and technology, or to learn more about these subjects, is to become a more powerful person. Ann Druyan
powerful humility reality
It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.
powerful two soul
But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so. Ann Brashares
powerful empathy groups
But all liberals only have empathy for the exact same victims - always the ones that are represented by powerful liberal interest groups. Ann Coulter
powerful law suffering
Liberals despise the rule of law because it interferes with their ability to rule by mob. They love to portray themselves as the weak taking on the powerful. But it is the least powerful who suffer the most once the rule of law is gone.
power men names
Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name. Andrea Dworkin
power men identity
All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.
power men color
It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist. Ana Castillo
powerful coffee writing
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since. Amy Waldman
powerful people progress
There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.
powerful generosity progress
If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress. Aga Khan IV
powerful motivation humans
The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
powerful example
Example is more powerful than precept. Aesop
powerful critical-moments needs
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
power literature harsh
Whoever is new to power is always harsh. Aeschylus
power
We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
power women
With more women in power, the world would be better off. Sandra Tsing Loh
power
In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything. Lloyd Cutler
power done literature
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done. Jane Austen
power men doe
Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
powerful availability people
I hear loads of cynics saying that I'll never be able to change anything. They say that junk food marketing and the ready availability of fast food is just too powerful. But I'd say in response, screw you. I know that most people, if they're really honest, are fed up with the same old rubbish Jamie Oliver
power bridges water
Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently. James Wolfensohn
powerful cameras description
The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is. Janet Malcolm
powerful flow bags
Possibility was not a bag or box that could be closed and sealed, it was a vast open chute which received everything, everything; one could not choose or direct or destroy the powerful flow of possibility. Janet Frame
powerful book self
Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can. Jane Siberry
power impact gestures
Never underestimate the power of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person's life. For better or worse. God puts us all in each other's lives to impact one another in some way. Jane Wagner
power reached time
About the time of the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome, the Etruscan power had reached its height. Theodor Mommsen
powerful heart men
I think we reserve a special place in our hearts for women who dare to try and be powerful, or occupy a special elevated place in society or when they are 'the bosses'. I think we really don't like it as a society and we have a harsh view of them. We look much harder at them, than the millions of men who aspire to the same positions and I can't figure that out. Meryl Streep
powerful lying exercise
All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence. For many, that addiction cannot be overcome without help. The tragic pattern is so familiar. It begins with curiosity that is fueled by its stimulation and is justified by the false premise that when done privately, it does no harm to anyone else. For those lulled by this lie, the experimentation goes deeper, with more powerful stimulations, until the trap closes and a terribly immoral, addictive habit exercises its vicious control. Richard G. Scott
powerful effort promise
I promise you the Lord will bless you in your efforts, for this is His work, and He will guide your prayerful efforts to bring the ordinances and covenants to your ancestors....you can make a powerful contribution. Begin now. I promise you that the Lord will help you find a way. And it will make you feel wonderful.
powerful people priorities
Are there so many fascinating, exciting things to do or so many challenges pressing down upon you that it is hard to keep focused on that which is essential? When things of the world crowd in, all too often the wrong things take highest priority. Then it is easy to forget the fundamental purpose of life. Satan has a powerful tool to use against good people. It is distraction. He would have good people fill life with 'good things' so there is no room for the essential ones. Have you unconsciously been caught in that trap?