Top 1200 Electric Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

Power is not anything that's given away. Power is something you have to compete for.

The power of light is always bigger than the power of darkness.

Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more of what does.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.

There's just a whole different attitude and vibe when you're not in power as when you're in power.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went Tenar; and presently, with some cunning, she said, "Haven't there been queens? Weren't they women of power?" "A queen's only a she-king," said Ged. She snorted. "I mean, men give her power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it.

The church and religion has lost tremendous power and positive power.

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

[Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.

The one power a man has that cannot be stripped from him is the power to do nothing.

The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.

We need to improve our public transportation and invest in physical infrastructure changes so that people can safely choose alternatives to driving like walking, riding a bike or even, yes, electric scooters.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

In a democracy, the citizens are supposed to have all the power, and the government is supposed to be the means by which the citizens exercise that power. But when you have a surveillance state, the state has all the power, and citizens have very little.

My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them. And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power. We've seen it time after time after time.

Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.

Any time you do an Adam Sandler film, it's kind of like a boys' club, because you're hanging out and there are guitars around, and basketballs and footballs and electric bikes and scooters and different people dropping by.

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality.

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking.

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage.

All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

The music you make is shaped by what you play it on ... if you feel that you're not getting enough out of a song, change the instrument - go from an acoustic to an electric or vice versa, or try an open tuning ... do something to shake it up.

Nine times out of 10, you see electric bikes being used for deliveries, but you're getting in a taxi, using a commuter train, not realizing that you can be a part of the green, clean energy movement as well.

In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and was then played loud but with traditional grace and intelligence

Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.

Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.

All leaders must have some power. Without power, you can't be a leader.

We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.

The real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity.

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope, where there was once only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. Sports is the game of lovers.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

I believe more in the power of drama than in the power of religion.