What Is Power Quotes

The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations.

No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution.

Power is of an encroaching nature.

What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust!

C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy

Power is supposed to be so corrupt. I don't think it's so much corrupt, in the usual sense of the word, as stupid and unrealistic. The more power a person has, the further he gets from reality.

The power of yes: that's what allows creativity to breathe and to come in. That's what allows your ideas to become living, breathing, moving dreams in action.

Having failed as an NFL commentator, Limbaugh understands the power of football.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

Those are the murderers of art who are sitting on the top wearing crowns of fake intelligence. Let me bring them down with the power of my art, without delaying the matter further.

F.D.R. had to deal with Southern segregationists - and outright racists - who held power in Congress, so he had to yield to that power in order to get his New Deal legislation passed.

There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup.

The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.

Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.

Music can change lives. Whether you are having a good or bad day, the power of music can change one's mood.

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.

If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.

Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things.

This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power.

The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.

I know Haye's a good fighter as well and he beat Mormeck but Mormeck is not Enzo Maccarinelli and does not have the speed, stamina or punching power.

You've got to think outside the box. If you can't, that's going to put you behind the power curve in a big way.

The right raw materials can...double or triple the protective power of the immune system.

There's power when you call on God, you ask Him, and you invite Him into your life. God will be in your life as much as you allow Him to.

Put your shoulders back, hold your head up high knowing that the same power that raised Christ from the dead lives on the inside of you.

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

Action has magic, grace and power in it.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

Power is neither male nor female.

Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.

I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.

Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!

We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it is against my religion to impose my religion.

One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking

Everyone has the power to impact the outcome of his life. The way to do it is to focus on today. . . It is too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow.

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

The important thing isn't that your technically great, I think it's the power of your expression.