Power Quotes · Page 83

The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]

— Ovid

Dr. Banner, your work is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous…

— The Avengers

Im da master of my own destiny; I can influence, direct & also control my own lyf da way I feel is…

— Anonymous

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime…

— Emily Carr

We must try to influence the government, not fight to take power.

— Ksenia Sobchak

I used to think that the British press were particularly awful to Cherie Blair. I think Blair's foreign policy was a complete…

— Mary Beard

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

All our wealth and all our export power has also come by the fact that other nations were willing to see us.…

— Joe Kaeser

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

— Abraham Lincoln

Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

— Laura Marano

If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person…

— Howard Jacobson

The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt…

— Matt Taibbi

Having excessive power in the hands of one country meant the fate of the world was too dependent on what happened in…

— Joseph Stiglitz

My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Money talks, but power screams.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.

— Clint Eastwood

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

— Virginia Woolf

“Use your influence to make impact and help others grow”

— Sunday Adelaja

Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as…

— Claire Tomalin

It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab…

— Moshe Dayan

Ponder the depth and the power of loyalty-the ability to serve and support a cause greater than yourself.

— Gary Zukav

Use your power gently.

— William Nicholson

Authority sucks,someone will gonna use it for fun..not for approval

— Cath Chatto

“As artists, poets, healers, teachers, keepers of the sacred law, philosophers, astrologers, etc., their influence was extensive. A”

— Sophie Cornish

We are trying to get away from those traditional centre, power forward type things.

— Nick Nurse

“Dominance is not a state of being, but a continuous act of narrative architecture.”

— Kangoma Kindembo

Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the…

— Johan Huizinga

“I don't need a weapon. My friends are my power!”

— Sora

When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The…

— Chuck Hagel

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

— Anonymous

My friend and I were talking about the band Limp Wrist, and how cool that name is, so we started bouncing other…

— Liv Bruce

As punishment for my contempt for authority, Fate has made me an authority myself

— Anonymous

“If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into…

— C.S. Lewis

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

— Bruce Coville

A leader - whether in the home, church, business, community, or government - has authority due to her role, but her positional…

— Dan B. Allender

The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ, and we learn about Him in its pages. We know that it…

— Henry B. Eyring

Nothing outside you has any power inside you unless you give it that power.

— Bakare

“You can do anything and smash anything in the world with a kopeck.”

— Nikolai Gogol

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat…

— Mary Stewart

We have power over nothing except our will.

— Michel de Montaigne