Quotes About Power

You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

Power is founded upon opinion.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, would be to be a god.

All these were things that at present seemed like a dream, because Fascism was in power and Fascism wanted people to let themselves crumble away.

Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?

I'm less opposed to pink than I am to dresses, for the simple reason that I hated dresses and skirts as a child. I hated the way they impeded my mobility and playground power, and I hated the fear I had while wearing them that with one stiff breeze I would be exposed to the world, with no choice afterward but to slip quietly into a permanent vegetative state.

There are no limits to your dreams, aspirations or power!

Throughout history, big changes always start with a girl meeting a boy." "No they don't," Jane said. "They start with somebody being assassinated.

I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.

The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.

My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.

the wages of empire is myopia

Before the war, they were happy, he said, quoting our textbook. (This was senior-year history class.) The slaves were clothed, fed, and better off under a master's care. I watched the words blur on the page. No one raised a hand, disagreed. Not even me.

Yet it wasn't until she was dead—until the New York Times saw fit to give her an obituary—that Rick realized just how far her story had traveled, how powerful the simple act of storytelling could be. Maybe it didn't matter if he never wrote his book about O-Six; maybe, in a way, he already had.

football field, but you don't play football all the time," says Kenzie. "A running back can't always rush. Sometimes you have to hold back. Think of what might happen if I used my super strength all the time.

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

I made the necessary gestures and vocalizations Stell required of me. It felt weird. Mostly because my Baptist upbringing suddenly kicked in, saying any magic you didn't see in the old Lord of the Rings was completely taboo, and even that was only liked by people like my parents. I relaxed when the process began to feel like a scientific formula I was performing with my body, instead of forming a pact with Hell that exchanged my soul for dark power.

Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative power of animals. She seemed to think that it must steady him to look at a buffalo.

A button machine makes buttons, no matter what the power used, foot, steam or electricity. They, no matter what the motivating force, death, love or God, made jokes.