The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
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Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.
Clifford Stoll
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
Friedrich Nietzsche
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
Friedrich Nietzsche
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Friedrich Nietzsche
This world is the will to power - and nothing besides!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
Eric Sevareid
What then is freedom ? The power to live as one wishes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin Disraeli
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
Benjamin Disraeli
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Benjamin Disraeli
When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. Kennedy
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
John F. Kennedy
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. Kennedy
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
Thomas Jefferson
Apathy isn't it. We can do something. So flower power didn't work. So what. We start again.
John Lennon
Character is power.
Booker T. Washington
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Oprah Winfrey
Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.
Oprah Winfrey
I ask you men...what are you so afraid of? If I am equal to you in power, does that diminish you?
Rita Mae Brown
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
Rita Mae Brown
The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
William Shakespeare
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.
Aldous Huxley
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
Aldous Huxley
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; First, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
Nikola Tesla
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Mahatma Gandhi
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.
Stephen Hawking
When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean ... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.
Theodore Roosevelt
Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin
Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.
Benjamin Franklin
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
Benjamin Franklin
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
Edmund Burke
Prayer is mans greatest power!
W. Clement Stone
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell
Man... hath by nature a power.... to preserve his property - that is, his life, liberty, and estate - against the injuries and attempts of other men.
John Locke
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
James A. Garfield
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
Woodrow Wilson
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
Mike Ditka
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.
J. K. Rowling
Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.
Charles Garfield
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
J. K. Rowling
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Sir Francis Bacon
Knowledge is power. (Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est).
Sir Francis Bacon
Knowledge is power.
Sir Francis Bacon
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
John Ruskin
I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.
John Ruskin
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
William Cobbett
If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.
G. K. Chesterton
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
Lois McMaster Bujold
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.
Jean Anouilh
Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.
William Arthur Ward
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.
Jean Anouilh
Anger without power is folly.
German Proverb
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty--power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips
The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
Wendell Phillips
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
Hermann Hesse
We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.… Our Constitution was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from 'won't power' to 'will power.'
Peter McWilliams
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
George W. Bush
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
James Madison
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison
Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation.
James Madison
The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since.
Tupac Shakur
I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.
Margaret Cho
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
James Madison
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
Baruch Spinoza
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
Helen Keller
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Andrew Jackson
The most powerful case in the country.
Hubert H. Humphrey
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart L. Udall
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
George W. Bush
Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.
Real Live Preacher
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
Thomas Hobbes
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions.
Norman Cousins
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
William Hazlitt
Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.
Korean Proverb
A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
William Hazlitt
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Thomas Hobbes
The cash infusion stemming from a potential GMAC sale would give GM additional financial flexibility, though clearly at the expense of earnings power.
Rob Hinchliffe
It's a cat-and-mouse game with the pharmaceutical companies. They are extremely powerful.
Andy Troszok
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
Albert Einstein
It shouldn't hurt us that much in power points. We played a team ranked higher than us and lost in penalty kicks.
Rene Villalva
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
I'm aware of (Gomez's) power, but I believe I can handle fighters with a big punch. I've fought fighters with a bigger punch, and I've beaten them.
Antonio Margarito
I loved ginger; I've always recognized its tremendous healing power.
Chris Reed
Our offense is centered around power.
Larry Bowa
We're telling people in that area that power could be out a week, because we have to rebuild the system.
Laurie Parker
That's a huge advantage going into overtime knowing we're on the power play. Basically the game was in our hands at that point, and luckily we capitalized.
Tom Preissing
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand Russell
What we need is a really strong, powerful advocate in a key position to advocate change, and we've lacked that.
Lisa Turner
Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Saul Alinsky
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Herbert Hoover
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
Bertrand Russell
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth
I believe that changing government power is the true reform.
Ichiro Ozawa
Till now, China hasn't grasped how powerful Congress can be and how it works. Persuading Bush isn't the real challenge.
Guan Anping
I believe God is restoring his church back to its full power and form and function. I believe God is saying, 'This is what I am doing all over the world. I am calling people out to become what church was when my Son established it.
Steve Wallace
...it's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself not for everyone else....
Mariska Hargitay
He brings a whole different level of intensity to the game. And he expects that from his catcher. He's a power pitcher and he's as good as he is for a reason, because of that intensity.
Kelly Stinnett
Because our audience is experiencing content in so many places these days, it's important not just to be a television company. One hopes the brand is powerful enough that your content is recognizable everywhere.
Brian Graden
The combination of these two offerings delivers a powerful, comprehensive product to members of the design and construction community.
Norbert W. Young
Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
Marsha Sinetar
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.
John Stuart Mill
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
Ralph Lauren
The thing about Wilson was he was just a great screamer, but he did it with control. James Brown would scream and it was a scream, but Wilson could scream notes. His voice was powerful, like a buzz saw, but it wasn't ever out of his control. It was always melodic.
Jerry Wexler
Money is the power of the impotent.
Leon Samson
Thermal management is a major challenge to increasing a laser's power.
Yulin Wang
We would call this role-based productivity. It's a very powerful concept.
Simon Witts
We're talking about powerful mafias. They're powerful, they're rich and they're ruthless.
Daniel Wilkinson
ESPN is an incredibly powerful brand, and I think that'll carry it.
Christopher Reed
Referrals are very powerful. When I refer you, I give a little bit of my reputation away. If you do a good job, my friend that hired you is pleased. But if you do a bad job, that reflects badly on me. People forget that.
Ivan Misner
Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well.
Robert A. Heinlein
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
Dr. John Marshall
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.
Eric Hoffer
He's a great back. He's strong. He's powerful. I could go on and on and on about him. I think he is as good as the billing and the hype.
Skip Holtz
It's about coastal erosion and the power of the waves on the dunes.
Andy Scott
I would rather have a back row seat in the house of the lord than a front row seat amoung the rich and powerful.
Alben William Barkley
With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can't possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
Akira Kurosawa
I think he can be as good as he wants to be. He is athletic, he has size and he has power. He has a good natural feel for the game. I don't know what else you need to mix in there. I think he is driven and wants to be a good football player.
Rick Petri
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
Robert Burton
It's significant because never before has the city elected such an important person who's lesbian or gay to such a powerful position.
Dick Dadey
What we're trying to do is have all of the mass and volume be used for the purpose it is to be used for, which is to power the device.
Angela Belcher
The essence of the methods (used by the Kremlin) is to remove from power those leaders that are too independent from its point of view.
Nikolai Petrov
New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse, and I can only dream that one day she will recapture her glory. I will do everything within my power to make that happen and to help in any way I can to ease the suffering of my city, my people!
Harry Connick, Jr.
ABSOLUTE, adj. Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. Not many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by limited monarchies, where the sovereign's power for evil (and for good) is greatly curtailed, and by republics, which are governed by chance.
Ambrose Bierce
I have more influence now than when I had the power.
Gough Whitlam
If we play powerful and we play together, there's no reason we can't win the rest (of the games).
Joe Paopao
People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
Ivy Compton burnett
These are major European powers projecting their power by building these bastions. It gets to the importance of this corridor to them in that age.
Howard Coffin
My No. 1 job now is being a grandparent, not repairing lamps or selling power line equipment.
Bob Sowders
This is a very, very powerful showing for Howard Dean. There's no question about it.
Harold L. Ickes
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
Roger Starr
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.
Captain J. A. Hadfield
One of the key challenges is how to make After Effects powerful enough for experienced users, but still accessible to newer users.
Jim Guerard
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
Reinhold Niebuhr
I think Beaufort County could pay lower rates and pay a host fee to Jasper County. Obviously (Beaufort and Jasper counties) would have more power negotiating with Waste Management.
Andrew Fulghum
Credit cards are powerful tools, but they can be dangerous, so you have to read the instructions carefully.
Janet Eissenstat
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Peter Galvin
Southern Sudan is going to be number one in Africa and the world for investment because it's a large country and the infrastructure is zero. People need buildings, power, highways, hospitals — they need everything.
Malei Nthiwa
The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
John Jay Chapman
They stayed as long as they could until they figured they would be without power for a few weeks.
Matt Pierce
Your grandchild understands that money can grow with something called interest. That's a powerful concept for a 5-year-old.
George Carlin
Georgia Power, as usual, did an excellent job of getting this thing going.
Johnny Wingers
Violence within the family is a matter of power and lack of accountability.
Paul Greening
He?s real powerful and you have to know how to play him. I kept the ball in until I had time to make my shot.
Sebastian Velez
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
David Brinkley
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Eric Hoffer
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
Alfred Adler
We assembled a great group of investors for our seed round last year, and now we've built on that with a powerful and diverse group for our first equity round.
Jonathan Weber
We're doing everything we can to keep our costs as low as we can, but the largest percentage of our cost is the cost of purchasing the power that we deliver to our customers. We could fire everyone and not do anything, but we still can't control the cost of energy that we have to buy to provide our customers.
Rodney Bourne
His power comes from his ability to make contact even though he swings the bat as hard as he can. That comes from working hard at the game, working all the time and finally getting to the point where you are comfortable with your swing.
Doug Ferguson
In today's environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something very important, the way to get power is by actually sharing it.
Joseph Badaracco
We draw a lot of energy from our penalty kills. This is our 37th or 38th penalty we've killed this season. No one has scored on the power play against us.
Scott Maxham
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