Quotes About Power

Although she didn't have the plumbing, she deluded herself that she was the modern W.C. (about Margaret Thatcher, M.T.)

Ce que j'aimais sans mesure chez ces sept femmes (lesquelles ayant pris le risque de vivre sans prudence ne purent éviter celui d'en souffrir) c'était leur puissance poétique, c'était la grâce de leur écriture, c'était le retournement qu'elles opéraient sur les forces de mort et leur pouvoir de conjuguer l'oeuvre avec l'existence, c'était le bouleversement qu'elles provoquaient en moi et le surcroît de vie qu'elles ne cessaient depuis longtemps de m'insuffler.

L'Église espagnole est devenue la Putain des militaires épurateurs.

Às vezes o silêncio é muito mais convincente do que a palavra.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oak.

Faith has not lost its power. The soul still enjoys this privilege of receiving inspiration from above. It is not the special prerogative of a few saints. It is the common right of all. It is not an occasional, exceptional gift. It is constant, continuous, the law of our being. It is not a miracle, interfering with the operations of the human soul. It is the condition of our soul's true life.

A miracle no longer seems to me a manifestation of extraordinary power, but an extraordinary manifestation of ordinary power. God is always showing himself.

The power that is to redeem him must be a power working within, not without.

My wife is a diplomate. If ever I am president of the United States—which may Heaven forbid,—she shall be secretary of State. She never argues; but she always carries her point.

A man is no less a person because he can speak in New York and be heard in Chicago, or press a button in Washington and set machinery in motion in Omaha. Extension of power does not lessen the personality of him who exercises it.

A wise, right, and true estimate of one's own powers is necessary to their highest and best use. The general who overestimates his forces leads them to defeat; he who underestimates them does not lead them at all.

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."

Electricity was a part of the world from its creation, and therefore my Electra is as old as Daylight or Moonlight, and equally beneficent to mortals and fairies alike.

Love is like iron– strong and unyielding.

Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same in every field of knowledge. Knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts not to bother about.

I have known kings and criminals. I prefer criminals. They cheat, steal and betray, but at least you don't have to worship them while they do it.

reader's report by Arlo Bates, a poet favoured by the firm, noted Dickinson's 'crudity of workmanship'. He foresaw no possibility of making a stir but did concede that this was the real thing, a power near to genius. Had she published—had she learnt the conventions of punctuation and rhyme—'she would have stood at the head of American singers'.

Guns and bombs, rockets and warships, are all symbols of human failure.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.