The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it. — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“Fayza leaned in, squinting, as if she didn’t hear me correctly: one of the library of power moves that adults used to… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
I would never have believed that the most powerful man in the world would think his own words have no power. — Alisyn Camerota Copy Share Image
Throughout my non-linear career, I've learned to tap into my inner power - particularly when I worked in the White House under… — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
“Losing control and you taking it from me are two different things, Sara. You won't ever take it from me.” — Lisa Renee Jones Copy Share Image
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have a lot of power. Here, I can decide: training at six in the morning! Training 11 in the night! But… — Carlo Ancelotti Copy Share Image
“[...] genuine power doesn't have to enforce it by example. Assumed power, on the other hand, requires folks' belief–it depends upon the… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
“Sure, shit happens we can’t control, but that’s exactly what it is: shit you can’t control. You can’t control what it is,… — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
I grew up in the church, and I went into the production of 'God Loves Uganda' intending to raise awareness of the… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens.… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
Tim Pigott-Smith once told me to never get off the carousel, i.e., just keep working. It's much harder to get back on… — Harry Hadden-Paton Copy Share Image
“The masses of people are carried along, obedient to environment; the wills and desires of others stronger than themselves; heredity; suggestion; and… — Three Initiates Copy Share Image
“And now, when Mother called to wake me up for the New Year, I first wanted to pray, but it turned into… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you like to run and the guys can't run, you don't run. If you like power, and you have guys that… — Tony La Russa Copy Share Image
The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness. — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
Control meant not only taking care of myself but living in a much less protected world. And doing that meant growing a… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
“Empower yourself and discover what you can do with your life through hard work, concentration and research” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“To-day is the day of wealth. Wealth now is power as it never was power before—it commands earth and sea and sky.… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and… — Livy Copy Share Image
Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own,… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“Give all power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all power to the few, they will oppress the many.” — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
“Generational oppression begins when what is meant to be transferred to one offspring has been taken over by reason of oppression.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
In some ways, privileged women who are closer to power wind up being able to exert their influence in ways that change… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is… — Kenneth Kaunda Copy Share Image
“Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
If the power was equitable, then our boards, then our commissions, our contracting, our wealth-building opportunities would all look very different. — Ayanna Pressley Copy Share Image
That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
The power of the leader is given to him by the people, so he has a duty to engage and listen more… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance — Iris van Herpen Copy Share Image
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