Power Quotes
Lines on power, wherever it shows up.
Rather than sticking to one definition, this set moves between the power of computing infrastructure, a hitter's power at the plate, and the power a film has to hold a room the way old storytelling once did. Compare notes on strength and character in our Great page.
The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.
The London I entered was a great bustling metropolitan city at war, an imperial power fighting to hold on to that empire. And the teeming colonial subjects of that empire did not, on the whole, want England to lose that...
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As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.
Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.
I saw the Internet as being something which would allow power mongers to control us, and that we would willingly go to that if it promised us salvation - if it promised to show us who we were and let...
In some ways, I feel like the strength of animation is in its simplicity and caricature, and in reduction. It's like an Al Hirschfeld caricature, where he'll use, like, three lines, and he'll capture the likeness of someone so strongly...
Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
A wounded Qaddafi still in power would be an ongoing threat and menace to the rest of the world.
The answer as to why ISIS gained power and influence, and why stability in the Middle East has disastrously deteriorated, does not require extensive analysis.
That really important freedom in my life, the freedom to marry, came about because of choices that were made by policymakers who had power over me and millions of others.
The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.
Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.
Businesses which were slow to recognize the power of the Internet in the mid '90s were quickly left behind. For example, Blockbuster failed to innovate with streaming technology and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2010.
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
No matter how much striking power you have got, you need to have a sense of defensive compactness from everyone.
When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.
If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.
I have to trust something that gives me power; I have to believe in something, but in my career I have a lot of moments I cannot explain with God.
The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
I think that, like the show 'Game of Thrones,' our fascination with power struggles is pretty unanimous.
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A few entries turn the word inward, noting how a plain fact can carry unexpected force. Readers drawn to power in a civic sense may also like Government, while broader reflections sit in Life.
