Quotes About Power

it feels as if this big tree must have a direct connection to whoever is in charge.

I know how to wait for clarity to emerge from chaos. I know what it is to trust in the power of the unseen.

Hope. Such a tiny word. Such a powerful word.

I believe that good people often do nothing because they cannot do everything. Because we are led to believe that our contribution is insignificant, we fail to contribute at all. But changing the world does not require that you possess the power to halt global injustice at the snap of fingers. Lao Tzu, philosopher and founder of Taoism, said that "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!

A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15 000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.

Cultures that develop around the notion of an authoritarian Father God inevitably oppress those who do not fit the image of the all-powerful, adult, human male: children, women, homosexuals, and the nonhuman communities of animal, plant, and mineral life with which we live and share the planet.

The more we are willing to release all that is holding us back from accepting a higher, loving power into our lives, the more we become available to experience true miracles everyday.

Just because it's made up, doesn't mean it isn't real," said Penn. "Made up is the most powerful real there is.

That is the other thing novelist do. We imagine the world we hope for and endeavor, with the greatest power we have, to bring that world into being.

Story is the best magic there is.

We imagine the world we hope for and endeavor, with the greatest power we have, to bring that world into being.

Penis Maaaaan! Able to leap tall buildings … owing mostly to his profound motivation not to get snagged on a lightning rod.

We all choose the terms of the desperate bargains we make with the powers that may be, which baseless beliefs and decaying wisdoms we cling to, and which we discard as superstition or sorcery or the ravings of misguided zealots. Which is to say: it may not make sense all the way, but it makes sense enough.

The only sharks I'm afraid of are the ones that wear three-piece suits and write memos.

Out here on the water, it's a fine line between feeling in control and losing it altogether.

Intuition is a gift, an inner power that you can turn to whenever you need it.

Come on, give me a shimmy!" Ruby screeched from the couch as she ground out one cigarette and then lit another. "You're fighting a battle of good and evil with your dog pimp! Your only weapon is the shimmy! There is power in the shimmy! Make him fear your shimmy! Now, goddamnit, show me your war shimmy!

The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.

Here's a news flash--writers are selfish people. Truth is, creative types like me are driven by one impulse--to make up a world in which we get to control everything and everyone. We decide who enters and who exits, what the weather will be, who will hook up with whom, who will win and who will lose. It makes us feel powerful and, in all honesty, has relatively little to do with thinking about what will make anyone else happy.

I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.

Who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious--is a genius or a hero.

Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy.

There are times when we need the rocket fuel of singing and dancing to power us through an act of blind faith. Falling in love is one of those times, when we need to move into a phase of enchantment with enough force so that when things cool and the air clears, we are locked into that person, that love. We fall in love and we sing as we walk down the street; we turn up the music and dance.