Quotes about power
powerful perspective violence
Many entire nations are marginalised by the more powerful nations. That is causing imbalance, violence and terror. Women must do their best to introduce another perspective. Karen Armstrong
powerful pitiful
You can't be pitiful AND powerful. Joyce Meyer
powerful pitiful
You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both
powerful
The more positive you are, the powerful youll be.
powerful impact investing
Impact investing can be a powerful instrument of change. Judith Rodin
powerful hands yesterday
I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful desolation came upon her face that I perceived she was one of those creatures that are not the playthings of Time. For her he had died only yesterday. And, by Jove! the impression was so powerful that for me, too, he seemed to have died only yesterday -- nay, this very minute. I saw her and him in the same instant of time -- his death and her sorrow -- I saw her sorrow in the very moment of his death. Do you understand? I saw them together -- I heard them together. Joseph Conrad
power sea generosity
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
power barbarians
To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
powerful latin rap
I was lucky enough to see the original cast of 'In the Heights.' This one blew my mind. The infusion of Latin, hip hop and rap with musical theatre, great storytelling and talent was a powerful combination to me during a time when I'd not been moved by much! Josh Young
powerful successful weapons
Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity. ... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through its successful habit of passing itself off as nature. Kate Millett
power fundamentals may
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power
powerful love-is unexpected
Love is a very powerful emotion and when a break-up is unexpected, it's very hard to get over. Leona Lewis
powerful lips doe
Sure God's all powerful, but does he have lips? Layne Staley
powerful fall mean
The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake Laurell K. Hamilton
powerful fall self
Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I've seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt.
powerful children technology
We are never without our technology. It surrounds us. It permeates our lives. We have powerful computers in our pockets, and we have been - you know, we are training our children from the youngest age to use social media, so it's something that comes very naturally to us. Lance Ulanoff
powerful men blood
Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful. Langston Hughes
powerful war women
I think that women as a group are so powerful. I still don't think we are able to embrace our power well enough yet. We think we live in a man's world and we have to follow their rules, and yet, we're so different, and our rules are so different. I wish that we could come together more as a political force. If women ran the world, I don't believe that there would be war. I really don't.... We understand the bigger picture. We understand our impact on the environment, on the world. We understand the generations that will go after us because we gave birth to them. Kyra Sedgwick
powerful believe feelings
He, who is gone, was one of the very kindest friends I possessed, and yet he was not kinder perhaps to me, than to others. His intense mind and powerful feelings would, I truly believe, have done the world some service, had his life been spared but he was of too sensitive a nature and thus he was destroyed! John Keats
power expectations united-states
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. John Kenneth Galbraith
power underwear economy
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
power thinking rich
To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich! John D. Rockefeller
powerful crazy thinking
A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted. John Cusack
powerful most-powerful very-powerful
Conversely, the most powerful thing an actor can say is "no." If something is presented and it's a stereotypical role or something, you can say no to that, and that's very powerful. John Cho
powerful nice vocabulary
Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things. John Charles Polanyi
powerful promise made
To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died ー literally chosen death ー before breaking his word. Lisa Kleypas
powerful feelings painful
I’ve been feeling something else. Like I’m about to be sucked into something powerful and painful. Gayle Forman
power weakness illusion
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? Lois McMaster Bujold
powerful stupid alternatives
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
powerful distance player
To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is the closest we can get to a calibrated answer to the question 'How big am I?' More than the size of an executive's office or even his title, which no one remembers anyway, the fewer people between the player and a 'yes,' the more powerful he is. Lynda Obst
power information tents
Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.
powerful order true-power
True power is invisible and impeccable, like good taste. It is never clumsy or artless. Powerful people whisper, suggest, seduce, in order to coerce. They only use volume for effect. This is how you can tell a blowhard from a mogul. ... Most powerful people don't need to coerce; their mere presence is coercive.
powerful moving opportunity
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. Lyndon B. Johnson