Quotes About Power

I would love to play the President. Give me the suit, give me the power, give me the oval office. That would be really fun.

I want a magical horse that fits in my pocket," Wil said. "And a ring of red amber that gives me power over demons. And an endless supply of cake.

As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.

If people are saying that somehow their connection is going to be detrimental to their health, of course they are going to reject that idea, because that's the power of falling like that.

Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.

I was disappointed in how [Bill] Clinton, like [Jimmy] Carter, used the founders to argue for huge expansions in federal power, clearly beyond what the founders could have ever conceived.

Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

The best way to come to terms with anything that is out of harmony is never to fear it - that gives it power. Bring good influences to bear upon it; make yourself a good example.

The Democratic Party is that amazing thing, out of power for six years and yet exhausted. They're pale, tired, and unready. Too bad, since it's their job to be an alternative, not an embarrassment.

Fear not, dear cousin. In madness there is great power

Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.

He has the power to heal and strengthen the soul. He is Jesus Christ.

Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!

So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives is the mere husk of what once he was.

This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things.

Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

True collaborative, nurturing, and safe power is a combining of forces that can only happen on a pretty small scale.

No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.

It is proved out of the holy scriptures that an unregenerate man is altogether destitute of the power and liberty of his will, in those things that pertain to faith and salvation.

The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one.

I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.