Power Quotes

If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.

It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.

There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

Powerful people have no regrets.

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.

People with power always take advantage of those without power.

I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.

But everyone has some kind of power to hurt people.

If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.

You may be a lady but you are still the man!

My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.

What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.

It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really.

Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

By the power of Steven Wright's Beard!

The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.

Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.

You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

Don't make fun of people who are different. Unless they have more money and influence. Then you must

But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough.

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect.

Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I'm lonely.

The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.

Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others.

Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother.

A named thing is a tamed thing.

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

Stupidity isn't the only thing humans carry inside of them. I'll show you that we also have the power to purify.

For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.

If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities.

If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

Reasoning is the mental tool that use to think with

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.

A woman in love with herself is magnetic.

Images have enormous power, and images freed from deep within ourselves can change us profoundly.

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.

If you are truly a servant of God, then you are to serve him as a master.

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

Words have power? That sounds like you're into some Harry Potter juju.

Words have longer lives than people.

Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

Power is never measured by what you can give but by what you can actually take!

Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.

Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.