Quotes about power
powerful incentives lasts
Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day. Francis Atterbury
powerful temptation littles
The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.
powerful ideas issues
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues. Francis Bacon
powerful wine passion
Of all things known to mortals wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.
power too-much authority
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
powerful fate player
There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well. Jeff Greenfield
power vocation suspicious
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious. Jean Rostand
power looks not-interested
All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show. Jhonen Vasquez
powerful party issues
The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue. Grover Norquist
powerful men people
I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid. Grover Cleveland
powerful aphrodisiac fame
Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac. Graham Greene
power tire
Power tires only those who do not have it. Giulio Andreotti
powerful reputation good-reputation
You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation. Giuliana Rancic
power limits belief
The only limits of power are the bounds of belief. Harold Wilson
powerful evil sick
The sick-room becomes the scene of intense convictions; and among these, none, it seems to me, is more distinct and powerful than that of the permanent nature of good, and the transient nature of evil. Harriet Martineau
power civilization other-half
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
powerful fists jem-and-scout
hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch Harper Lee
powerful simple men
We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
powerful trying ems
You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change. -Atticus Finch
powerful pride tkam
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
powerful tkam people
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
powerful positivity sunshine
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
power waiting streets
Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power. Gregory Corso
powerful writing sweat
as I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K."-a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary words somehow stripped of all claptrap and set down in the city streets-I AM AN ANTICHRIST-Remain as powerful as anything I know. Listening to the record today-listening to the way Johnny Rotten tears at his lines, and then hurls the pieces at the world; recalling the all-consuming smile he produced as he sang-my back stiffens; I pull away even as my scalp begins to sweat. Greil Marcus
powerful regret people
Powerful people have no regrets. Gregory David Roberts
powerful games trying
My entire purpose is trying to be the best in the game, and if that exudes beauty too, that's pretty powerful. Hope Solo
powerful trying way
More than ever, it's very apparent that we are strapped for natural resources. We configure and reconfigure to try and find a way to maintain natural assets, when, ultimately, we are overlooking the most abundant, dynamic, and powerful resource we have available to us - our youth. Ian Somerhalder
powerful world moments
There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states. Ian Bremmer
powerful tools institutions
There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage. Iain Duncan Smith
powerful constitution-of-the-united-states paper
The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful in the new nation--all this was already settled in the colonies by the time of the Revolution. With the English out of the way, it could now be put on paper, solidified, regularized, made legitimate by the Constitution of the United States. Howard Zinn
powerful pride thinking
Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic" in dealing with a problem is to work only among the alternatives which the most powerful in society put forth. It is as if we are all confined to a, b, c, or d in the multiple choice test, when we know there is another possible answer. American society, although it has more freedom of expression than most societies in the world, thus sets limits beyond which respectable people are not supposed to think or speak.
powerful lying historical
But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.
powerful believe differences
Sometimes the difference between two candidates is an important one in the immediate sense, and then I believe trying to get somebody into office, who is a little better, who is less dangerous, is understandable. But never forgetting that no matter who gets into office, the crucial question is not who is in office, but what kind of social movement do you have. Because if you have a powerful social movement, it doesn't matter who is in office.