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Quotes About Power

I'm really super feminine, and I'm really soft. I'm very sensitive, I realized.
~ Serena Williams
The super PACs have brought an element of fear into the equation. The fact that they can bring this money into the campaign, basically ambush you out of nowhere, and you'll have no way to fight back.
~ John Sarbanes
Immortality... Is that a super power?
~ Mark Wahlberg
Put the hero back in the super hero movies, because I think 'super' might have taken over.
~ Max Landis
The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
~ Eddie Trunk
We in this entertainment industry try to act like we're so super powerful. we're not being honest, because we're human, and in our humanity there's a little fear.
~ Tasha Smith
The market needs a super car with no excuses.
~ Henrik Fisker
Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The conventions are basically the playoffs, and the election's the Super Bowl. To me, it doesn't feel important.
~ Hari Kondabolu
For those not so taken by the star power, this new 'Ocean's Eleven' is the equivalent of a domineering team you can't stand that enters the Super Bowl. Even if you don't like the players, the odds are so good that it's tough to bet against them.
~ Elvis Mitchell
Howard Hughes was obsessed with me. But at first it seemed as if he were offering me a superb career opportunity.
~ Jane Greer
Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.
~ Cameron Russell
Nothing for the Left, nothing the government does is ever about its superficial reason; it's only and always about expanding government power and control over you.
~ Monica Crowley
Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it makes this seizure of power both necessary and possible.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
Being a superhero is a lot of fun.
~ Chris Hemsworth
I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
~ Gabby Douglas
Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
~ Park Bo-gum
For sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true that we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least?
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Take your practiced powers and stretch them out until they span the chasm between contradictions ... for the god wants to know himself in you.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Every angel is terrible.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
All that we have gained, the machine threatens- once a tool assumes a force of its own. Instead of letting us get used to mastery, for buildings more severe it cuts the stone.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I find you, Lord, in all Things and in all my fellow creatures, pulsing with your life; as a tiny seed you sleep in what is small and in the vast you vastly yield yourself. The wondrous game that power plays with Things is to move in such submission through the world: groping in roots and growing thick in trunks and in treetops like a rising from the dead.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
My body glows in every vein and blooms To fullest flower since I first knew thee, My walk unconscious pride and power assumes; Who art thou then- thou who awaitest me? When from the past I draw myself the while I lose old traits as leaves of autumn fall; I only know the radiance of thy smile, Like the soft gleam of stars, transforming all. - Offering
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Don't write love poems; avoid those forms that are too facile and ordinary: they are the hardest to work with, and it takes great, fully ripened power to create something individual where good, even glorious, traditions exist in abundance.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke