Quotes about power
powerful people trying
People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users. Matt Mullenweg
powerful believe museums
I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece. Maynard James Keenan
power causes intoxication
Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication. Maya Angelou
powerful writing heart
Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
powerful gay voice
You may be pretty or plain, heavy or thin, gay or straight, poor or rich. But remember this: In an election, every voice is equally powerful -- don't underestimate your vote. Voting is the great equalizer.
power thinking iron
It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight. John Ruskin
power stronger association
The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.
powerful sea fishing
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
power people liberty
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. John Quincy Adams
powerful heart character
Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.
powerful charity moral
Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.
powerful blessed men
While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power; that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth, and that the tenure of power by man is, in the moral purposes of his Creator, upon condition that it shall be exercised to ends of beneficence, to improve the condition of himself and his fellow men.
powerful numbers community
Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.
powerful information action
One of the most powerful forms of information is feedback on our own actions. John P. Kotter
powerful tradition force
Tradition is a very powerful force.
powerful grace doctrine
As among all the doctrines of the gospel, there is none opposed with more violence and subtlety than that concerning our regeneration by the immediate, powerful, effectual operation of the Holy Spirit of grace. John Owen
powerful war heart
Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages over my soul. The world presses in upon me with all sorts of pressures, pleas, and pretences. My own corruption is violent, tumultuous, enticing, and entangling. As it conceives sin, it wars within me and against me. Occasions and opportunities for temptation are innumerable. No wonder I do not know how deeply involved I have been with sin. Therefore, on God alone will I rely for my keeping. I will continually look to Him.
power
His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power. John Milton
powerful believe independent
The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all. Norman Cousins
powerful school grieving
What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen. Norbert Wiener
powerful nice thinking
I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way. Nolan Bushnell
powerful kids games
Video games in some ways are too powerful, they have too much resonance with kids. And it's very easy to overdose on video games and to let the outside world go by.
powerful believe hands
I certainly don’t believe in religion, although I find it fascinating that it’s become so powerful in the world and it’s kind of dictated morals down through societies for thousands of years, but I don’t see the hand of God at work in the world anywhere. Noel Gallagher
powerful writing style
In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style. Mitch Albom
powerful taken reality
We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them. John Henrik Clarke
powerful close-friends energetic
Friends range from acquaintances all the way to our best friends and beloveds. A tremendously powerful energetic love can be created from close friends who are highly aligned. John Friend
powerful drawing lines
Line is the most powerful device of drawing. John French Sloan
powerful people trying
If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up? John Edgar Wideman
powerful emotion kind
I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything. John Oliver
powerful missing understanding
One of the most powerful and prophetic analysts was Karl Marx. He showed how work can alienate a person from their nature and potential. Certain work can dull and darken human presence... the linear mind can miss its gift... Perception is crucial to understanding. John O'Donohue
powerful way looks
The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life.
powerful military war
Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
powerful class desire
Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions and to the voluntary desire of powerful classes to maintain the existing status. John Dewey