Quotes About Power

Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us.

Davos is an extravagant bun-fight of the vanities, where the 'haves' gather to strike deals with the 'have-mores.'

The power to stay your hand is far greater than the power to strike with your hand and hinsa has no place in the society.

The people who serve your fast food lunch or your after-work drinks deserve dignity - and if big companies don't start paying them enough for a decent standard of living, they have the power to close these businesses. But no one goes on strike lightly.

If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a 'conservative' ruling, limiting the federal government's ability to override state power?

It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.

I've got good jiu-jitsu skills, good wrestling, good ground and pound, good power on my feet, good strikes.

I was stronger than Robinson Cano is, but he consistently strikes the baseball with substantially more force than I did.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power.

People ask me if I think Anne Boleyn was a feminist... but she wasn't striking out on behalf of women, and she wasn't particularly keen on them.

A good boxer, in striking the round blow, instead of loosening body and arm, gathers himself into a heap of muscularity and begins his blow where all blows ought to begin, from the solidarity of the right foot.

The State has invariably shown a striking talent for the expansion of its powers beyond any limits that might be imposed upon it.

We've always looked for guys and girls who have striking ability... there's a reason my past company was called Strikeforce.

My striking isn't the prettiest, and I hit really hard.

Music is a lot more powerful than anyone gives it credit for. I can sing something right now and make you feel something that you would not feel if I said it. If somebody can sing and connect to people just through voice, just through sonics, capturing an emotion, that's a direct string to somebody's soul.

We know the Constitution gives the purse strings to the House.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

These days I can really get the strings to snap if I want.

It is being implied that I have pulled strings to get my son out of jail on bail. Tell me if I was so powerful why would I have allowed my son to languish in Arthur Road jail for 21 days?

I usually decide if I'm going to do a movie based on if I like the script or not. I thought 'Pulling Strings' had every single element that a classic romantic comedy needs to be a success. It's very well written. The cast was amazing. It was a decision I made based on the power of the script.

What I really - and I would like to clarify my position, to topple Hamas. And I think it's possible to bring reasonable people, moderate people to take power in Gaza Strip.

There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now.

I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.