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Quotes About Power

The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be because the software is right.
~ Bill Gates
We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story.
~ Danny Boyle
The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture of a fallen world in which there is a gospel of power.
~ Russell D. Moore
We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.
~ George Orwell
No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.
~ James A. Garfield
Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.
~ Randal Marlin
Some morning, get up and allow the power of God to come on you, and allow Him to bless you.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal.
~ Armand Trousseau
Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no longer servants, no longer civil.
~ Winston Churchill
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
~ Margaret Mead
In the new organisation, power flows from expertise, not position.
~ Thomas A. Stewart
I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
~ Buzz Bissinger
I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.
~ Maggie Gyllenhaal
Don't be intimidated by power, wealth or station, character alone makes all the difference.
~ Joe Biden
We find our power in the same place as our pain.
~ Aaron Shepard
The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
~ Vernon Howard
The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.
~ Werner Herzog
Intermittency [in availability for wind and solar] changes the economics, particularly this requirement that the power company at all times be able to require power. That's large.
~ Bill Gates
There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.
~ Brennan Manning
There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way.
~ William C. Bryant
You can't keep changing the rules based upon who holds political power.
~ Matthew Dowd
Chloe turned to Vetch. The poet said gently, "You see, you do have power. Words give you power, to create or destroy." His eyes flickered to Clare. "Even to forgive.
~ Catherine Fisher
I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street.
~ Cathy O'Neil
We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don't know.
~ Peter Jennings