Quotes About Power

In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.

I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.

My power is discombobulatingly devastating.

Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.

Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.

The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

I know Haye's a good fighter as well and he beat Mormeck but Mormeck is not Enzo Maccarinelli and does not have the speed, stamina or punching power.

Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.

I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.

A new model is starting to take root and grow, one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide these choices. I call this emerging model The Mesh.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

The spell of power never quite releases its hold.

For when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart; and as I gave way unto it I found the evil weakening in me and the good raised up

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints.