Power Quotes

"Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more"

Ossie Davis, Actor

"What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value"

Millicent Fawcett, Activist

"A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals"

Richard V. Allen, Public Servant

"Women have had the power of naming stolen from us"

Mary Daly, Theologian

"Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world"

Lawrence G. Lovasik, Clergyman

"The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself"

Linda Lavin, Actress

"However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power"

Kate Millett, Activist

"People always joke that "dog" spells "god" backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test"

Linda Blair, Actress

"Therefore God is one, if that which admits of so great power can be nothing else: and yet those who deem that there are many gods, say that they have divided their functions among themselves; but we will discuss all these matters at their proper places"

Lactantius, Author

"Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power"

Joyce Maynard, Writer

"Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it"

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Politician

"The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone"

Orhan Pamuk, Novelist

"Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy"

Kelly Miller, Sociologist

"I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it"

Clyde Tombaugh, Scientist

"If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"The Constitution was about a limitation on power"

Roy Moore, Judge

"No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired"

Romano Prodi, Statesman

"Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change"

Pete du Pont, Politician

"Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words"

Paul Engle, Poet

"I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power"

Oliver Stone, Director

"We favor the economic unification of Germany. If complete unification cannot be secured, we shall do everything in our power to secure the maximum possible unification"

James F. Byrnes, Politician

"To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection"

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

"The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both"

Vaclav Havel, Leader

"So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want"

William Kirby, Scientist

"Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man"

Saskya Pandita, Leader

"Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master"

Walter Rauschenbusch, Writer

"The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power"

Roy Moore, Judge

"Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use"

Thomas J. Watson, Scientist

"We work hard on the show. We really believe in the show. It's an enormous privilege to work on a show that has the power to touch people's lives in such a positive way. The fan mail and the e-mail certainly reflect that"

Roma Downey, Actress

"I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion"

Patrick Marber, Writer

"If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power"

Preston Brooks, Politician

"I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that"

Ron Davies, Politician

"Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world"

Richard Eberhart, Poet

"The coal industry has helped fuel this Nation for 150 years, and coal can be used to heat our homes, power our economy, and protect our Nation for at least another 150 years if we continue to use it"

Tim Murphy, Politician

"Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body"

Devon Aoki, Model

"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even"

Muhammad Ali, Athlete

"FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal"

Sepp Blatter, Leader

"I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made"

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Actress

"Father Fernando did every thing in his power to assist the sick; and although he arrived much reduced in flesh, he did not become ill, and is now well"

Junipero Serra, Clergyman

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