Quotes About Power

Maya Angelou once passed on to me: "I'm convinced that the negative has power—and if you allow it to perch in your house, in your mind, in your life, it can take you over," she said. "Those negative words climb into the woodwork, into the furniture, and the next thing you know, they're on your skin. A negative statement is poison.

power to destroy, they also have the power to heal.

The thing you fear most has no power - it is what has the power.

I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself in your own scent. The issue is the same for all real poets. If you've been happy for too long, you become banal. By the same token, if you've been unhappy for a long time, you lose your poetic power...Happiness and poverty can only coexist for the briefest time. Afterword either happiness coarsens the poet or the poem is so true it destroys his happiness.

The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory — of this there is no doubt.

Where there's a lot of money to be made, there's also a lot of blood to be spilled.

There was something pretentious about politics when it was taken to extremes.

The gulf between the private and public views of our countrymen is evidence of the power of the state. —Celâl Salik, Milliyet

Tidak cukup hanya menjadi pihak yang tertindas, kau juga harus menjadi pihak yang benar, karena sebagian besar orang yang tertindas dapat dipandang salah dari nyaris semua sudut pandang.

If the lycée teachers studying this book in their class are now beginning to get nervous, they can advise the students to skip this page.

T?pk? muhteÅŸem bir Despot gibi DoÄŸu, güce ve göz kamaÅŸt?ran ?????yla insanlar? yere çalr, insan orada daha yürümeyi öÄŸrenmeden diz çökmek, konuÅŸmay? öÄŸrenmeden dua etmek zorunda kal?r.

We used to be brothers and sisters here. Kurdish, did not know he was. Turkmenians, Germans, they all existed here but never were proud of it. That pride was only distributed by the powers who aimed to destroy Turkey.

VatandaÅŸlar?m?z?n ÅžAHSÄ° görüÅŸleriyle RESMÄ° görüÅŸleri aras?ndaki FARKIN DERÄ°NL???, DEVLETÄ°MÄ°ZÄ°N GÜCÜ'nün kan?t?d?r (Celal Salik).

Despite whatever great artistic sense and talent a man might possess, he ought to seek money and power elsewhere to avoid forsaking his art when he fails to receive proper compensation for his gifts and efforts.

Ne kadar hünerin ve yeteneÄŸin olursa olsun paray? ve iktidar? baÅŸka yerlerde ara ki, hüner ve emeÄŸinin kar??l???n? alamay?nca sanata küsmeyesin.

Tahta oturaca?? bir ÅŸehzadeye yirmi dokuz ya??na kadar budala ve mutlu bir çocuk hayat? sürdürtebilen bir imparatorluk, tabii ki y?k?lmaya da??lmaya, yok olmaya mahkumdur.

I was reminded of a horrifying aphorism my father had taught me, expressing the ambivalence of officials toward gifted artists and writers who criticize their regimes: "Poets must first be hanged, then mourned at the gallows.

Cumhuriyet kimlerin elinde görüyorsun. Ä°smet PaÅŸa bu adama deÄŸil bakanl?k, ta??s?n diye çantas?n? bile vermez!..

Um dia abri um livro e toda a minha vida mudou. Desde a primeira página, sofri com tanta força o poder do livro que senti o meu corpo apartado da cadeira e da mesa a que me sentava.

Pero su poder sobre mí no procedía de algo exterior, de ser un "centro de poder" ajeno, sino de mi propio deseo de gustar, de ser querido y acariciado. Por eso me resultaba tan interesante el poder que la maestra tenía sobre una clase de 25 personas

They were so accustomed by now to the random coming and going of the lights that no one bothered anymore with the rituals of power outage

Poezija nam nije pomogla da na?emo sre?u; stoga je sad pokušavamo na?i u zakrilju politi?koga plašta

Bizim askerler BaÅŸbakan Menderes'i daha o zamanlar asmam??t?; o da sabah akÅŸam Ä°stanbul'da Kadillak arabas?yla geziyor ve yolunu kesen bütün eski evleri ve konaklar? y?kt?r?p geniÅŸ caddeler açt?r?yordu.

Mevlut beÅŸ dakika ayn? köÅŸede durursa kald?r?m? iÅŸgal etti diye arabas?n? al?p parçalayan belediye memurlar?, büyük ÅŸirketlerin kald?r?mlarda yürümeyi zorlaÅŸt?ran buzdolaplar?na hiç ses etmiyordu.