Quotes About Power

Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.

In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.

World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.

The violence is the violence. I understand that we're sometimes squeamish about it, but I think that strength needs to be called on once in awhile, and sometimes that's the only thing that will work.

Wherever I sit is the head of the table.

It's fun as a coach to work with somebody that has power and that has potential to achieve, really, anything that he wants to achieve. It's just a question of time and how much work they put into it.

The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.

Margaret Thatcher made tough decisions. She put people out of work and she stood up to labor unions and she did a lot of things that I did not like.

God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

My work as secretary of state was not influenced by the outside forces.

That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for those to come.

When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn't work.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.

Generally you don't initiate the projects - they're designed and you're inserted. Your material is edited by somebody. You feel a lack of power over your work.

the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.

You can work with me—or you can wade through the blood and bodies after I'm done.

Why would anyone be able to make $21 million not showing up for work for a single day? That is vulgar capitalism. That is not good for the nation.

It wasn't the first time. This happened to Dennis Kucinich. It happened to Jesse Jackson. They did it even to Howard Dean, creating the Dean scream. This is how they [democrats] work.

The work of God can only be carried on by the power of God. The church is a spiritual organism fighting spiritual battles: only spiritual power can make it perform as God ordained.

The corporations own the elections and they're manipulating the masses. We have to come up with a new system, because this one is broken. That's why I work very hard to create new patterns.

Informing all of Carson's work was the idea that although human beings are part of nature, we are distinguished by our power to alter it irreversibly.

When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.