What Is Power Quotes

Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name.

Do right! and thou hast naught to fear;Right hath a power that makes thee strong.The night is dark, but light is near;The grief is short, the joy is long.

There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach; the function of the second is -- to move.

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!

The reputation of power IS power.

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.

The power of making war often prevents it.

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.

No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge.

I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.

The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.

Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It might not even be a good work of art.

It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.

Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.

... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest truest constitution on the face of the earth. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

Domestic power structures are shaped in good part by global arrangements.

No problem is too small for His attention nor so large that He cannot answer the prayer of faith. Prayer surely is the passport to spiritual power.

An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow.

What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.

I can play a power game, but I also have the ability to step it up to another level and hit shots even further on call.

There are guys on Tour who hit the ball further than me. I always thought it was important to have power, but more important to have power in reserve.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

If those of us in positions of responsibility fail to do everything in our power to protect the right of privacy, we risk something far more valuable than money. We risk our way of life.

We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.

I think if you do term limits, you would really increase the power of lobbying.

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.

They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.

And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.

I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives.

The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation.

God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.

My favorite piece of tech gear is my SRM power meter. It's the most accurate power meter on the market.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.

Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue. Find out all the facts and stamp out the fire. Demystify.

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response