Quotes About Power

Your ability is your power. Other's opinions can make it sour.

Your mind is the most powerful magnet. What you think, you attract.

It is understandable that we want a powerful God, but I'm not sure that desire really leads us to more truth, or more goodness, or a better world.

This powerful question—"Am I standing in my power or am I trying to please another?"—challenges us to believe in ourselves and make the daring choice to trust in our innate ability to know what's in our highest and best interest.

Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else.

Here's where the real power of generosity comes in. Often, the more we give, the more we receive.

If you can make a compelling argument, and win enough minds, and if you can transform various parts of our world sufficiently, then the moment belongs to you.

I've been giving the evil in this world too much power and God too little.

He was standing in the middle of the room, an arrogant look on his face. "What a night," Wendy sighed. Without even turning his head to look at her Raphael said, "Sleep." Wendy fell backward, her head landing on the pillow. "Don't do that to her!" Susan exclaimed. "You'd prefer to have this conversation with her listening?" Raphael asked, lifting one eyebrow.

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party.

This is a world-wide struggle between freedom and tyranny," he told a California audience, "between the self-rule of many as opposed to the dictatorship of the ruthless few.

In short, favoring the Jews would offend the Arabs and their millions of Muslim supporters and create dangerous risks and turmoil in a part of the world where the United States had a substantial stake.

No, gentlemen, you don't take a post of this sort and then resign when the man who has the constitutional responsibility to make decisions makes one you don't like.

There is no perfect solution to the problem of writing about therapy patients. But not to do so strikes me as the riskiest choice at a time in our culture when the power to define madness, malingering, and suicide potential is being handed over to insurance company functionaries.

Not very smart," Chudo-Yudo growled. "Stalking a Baba Yaga." He showed a set of sharp white teeth. "Maybe he has a death wish. I could help with that You want me to eat him?

Barbara felt lightheaded, almost dizzy with what she was about to say. But she said it anyway. "As you wish, Your Majesty. In that case, I am afraid I must resign my position as Baba Yaga. If I am forced to choose between the work I was destined to do and the man I was destined to love, I choose the man.

I like the way the word Witch connects us back through all the generations of those who went before us who harnessed the power of the elements and magick to improve their lives and deepen their connection with the natural world.

man can live or work far beyond the earth's atmosphere … the first nation to do this will control the earth.

A ruthless foe established on a space station could actually subjugate the peoples of the world,

According to Christian doctrine as it was taught for millennia, Jesus was crucified because, among other things, he threatened Jews' power and financial well-being.

Given the absurdity of antisemitic accusations, why do they gain any traction? One explanation may be that, having been embedded in society for millennia, they have gained a staying power that is hard to eradicate. Antisemitism also became a means of explaining otherwise inexplicable situations.

Hearing this, I was reminded of Hajo's comment the previous summer. "People like David Irving do not throw firebombs. They throw the words that can cause others to throw those firebombs.

Once upon a time there was a king and queen who thought they were sneaky.