What Is Power Quotes

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.

The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.

It is natural for me to ignore autograph seekers, but God wants me to share my testimony card with them and be loving. That power and initiative comes from him.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers.

The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.

Women now wield considerable power along political lines and I believe each succeeding year for some time to come will find them wielding that power more effectively.

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.

When we think we’re at the mercy of our circumstances and past, we discount the power that is ours through the Holy Spirit.

Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

Principles have a way of yielding to power.

The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be because the software is right.

Intermittency [in availability for wind and solar] changes the economics, particularly this requirement that the power company at all times be able to require power. That's large.

Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'

There are people who don't like women holding power.

The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.

The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.

Even if parties associated with right wing populism don't win, they push other parties, the centrist parties, towards their position. So they do have an influence even if they're not in power.

There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.

I have a very strong color theory, for instance, where in 'Powers,' green means powerless, and red means power.The story was all there, but I was desperate to make sure that extra level was the case.

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God’s will than in human wants; otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.

I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.

First with the head, then with the heart.

Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success.

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

I hope we all feel more comfortable acknowledging the power of image in our perceived successes and our perceived failures.

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

If you're wondering where the Lord is, At this very hour, I tell you he's alive and well, With resurrection power!..

... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to enact the needful laws themselves.

Chloe turned to Vetch. The poet said gently, "You see, you do have power. Words give you power, to create or destroy." His eyes flickered to Clare. "Even to forgive.

I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street.

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.

Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.

The love of God is no mere sentimental feeling; it is redemptive power!

I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection, which selects exclusively for the good of each organic being.

The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.

It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

All the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals.

We know that God's being is perfect, His essence infinite, His dominion absolute, His power unlimited, and His glory transcendent.

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.