Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Power is something that is not really visible. Some people have the power to rise above circumstance. Sociological factors and DNA are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
All renewables, much as I love them, are diffuse. They all have a small power per unit area, and we have to… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power. — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living things - even entire worlds. Perhaps advanced beings could use… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
We should recognize that nationalism does not mean discriminating against people of a different nationality. It simply means not allowing such people… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
“Ce n'est pas la première fois que je remarque combien, en France particulièrement, les mots ont plus d’empire que les idées." ("It's… — George Sand Copy Share Image
But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't understand what feminism is. They think it is about advance and success for women, but it's not… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
All it takes to become president is money and a certain kind of power. Being president is the first thing I can… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people that have marginal powers, like a guy who levitates a little bit off the ground, or… — Sharlto Copley Copy Share Image
“This context dependency means that rather than causing X, testosterone amplifies the power of something else to cause X.” — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Holding Amy against me, I realize the simple truth is that power isn't control at all - power is strength, and giving… — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The next time you have a high-stakes meeting, a presentation, or an important social engagement, practice power posing beforehand to potently and… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The power to remove an individual from office is reserved for the greatest betrayals of public trust, not just because you disagree… — Michael Tubbs Copy Share Image
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
You've got the power to change people's lives just by talking to them for a few minutes or by smiling at them.… — Willie Cauley-Stein Copy Share Image
Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has. — Jonathan Barnbrook Copy Share Image
Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and... the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power, however... A persons most useful asset is not a head full of knowledge, but a heart full of love,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most of us, most of the time, act within plays the lines of which were written long ago, the images of which… — Sidney W. Mintz Copy Share Image
“For better sleep tonight, pre-order your duck fight today. It’ll give your pillow the energy you need to power slumber through to… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
I like people. That's me. I like people on the street, and I also happen to like other people who have power.… — John Polson Copy Share Image
Couture has a power that ready-to-wear can never have; the attention of les petites mains as they sew; all that love and… — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
“A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
