Will Power Quotes

Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do.

I got, like, Diane Keaton's manager, and she was very connected; she had power. And she was like, "Your star is in tears on this comedy. Do you even notice that at all?"

If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language.

When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used, our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power.

Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!

And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

Our bodies are just temporary vessels for our souls, which will go on forever. You really are an extension of the power that created the whole universe, no matter what drags you have on.

I liken the current situation to that of the Starship Enterprise. The shields are up and the Klingons are shooting at us and every time they land a punch they are sapping our power.

The more people in need, the better the Democrat Party is, in their minds, 'cause that's their source of power.

We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be.

When you can answer questions about what you think and when you can explain why you think what you think, that's power, it's comforting power.

Barack Obama wants to be the power figure, he wants to be the face of the Democrat Party going forward.

If somebody tells me they want something or they want something to happen and if it's in my power to make it happen, I start working on it thinking they meant it.

What I know is that taxation, as far as liberal Democrats are concerned, is not about money. It's about power.

Destabilization and turmoil,[Steven] Lerner hopes, will also crash the stock market, isolating the banking class and allowing for a transfer of power.

Just in the real world I think women are the ones that have all the power anyway.

Power to the Democrats is an entitlement, elections are a formality, and they should never lose. And especially to somebody like Donald Trump, who they think is a reprobate and a horrible guy.

In civilized society, women have the ultimate power. It's women who say "no," in civilized society. That's what you feminists never have understood.

If you're going to offer a position of great power and importance to somebody, you're not gonna do that publicly unless you know they're gonna accept it, because to refuse it is a rebuke.

Liberals never, ever should be back in power. Never.

We live in a country where power changes hands cyclically, because everybody in power screws up at some point, or the voters get fickle and just want a change.

The state sovereignty is key here in the Electoral College - and if you're going to start divvying up the power of each state's elections, you are destroying state sovereignty.

The objective of the people who bring impeachment charges, if the Republicans do this on Trump, the objective will be to get one of them back in the power structure.

I believe the power of Economics is to help provide a unique lens for looking at the world.

Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

A bureaucrat is one who has the power to say "no" but none to say "yes."

Creative art is the power to be for a moment a flash of communication between God and man.

I'd want to have the power of mind control. If I had that one skill you'd always see at the bank loading up bags full of cash.

The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.

It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

We don't recognize the power of compounding.

But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.

Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing.

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.

Through social media, we can start a global conversation. This creates an army of advocates - the power really is in the hands of the viewers.

I believe, assume the power to decide more political than legal issues in nature, the people naturally focus less on the law and more on the lawyers that are chosen really to administer the law.

When you're running, when you're in elected office, you're surrounded with power. And, so every single day, you have to remind yourself why you're here, and that people put you here for a reason.

[A]ll will be raised by the power of God, having spirit in their bodies, and not blood.

Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have been offer'd to private subjects.

The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

To do something is in every man's power.

We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.

To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.