Top 1200 Electric Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.

I'm feelin' electric tonight Cruising down the coast goin' 'bout 99 Got my bad baby by my heavenly side I know if I go, I'll die happy tonight

I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

When you go to a power place, if you are receptive, if you are able to quiet your thoughts and concentrate, a lot of that power can enter into you.

My every thought has the power either to wound or heal. I will use my thoughts wisely and respect their power.

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the power of meditation all scientific facts are discovered today. They study the subject and forget everything, their own identity and everything, and then the great fact comes like a flash.

There is one thing the power of God and the power of Satan have in common: Neither can influence us unless we allow them to.

I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.

If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at length actually gain power to check your thoughts and reflections.

Many programs are built on the government's spending power, and the existence of an extraconstitutional limit on that power is a worrisome development.

We have all been told that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have long thought this is nonsense.

...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.

Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour is the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.

This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

The Bangles are proof that short skirts and electric guitars go hand-in-hand. They are one of the great all-girl groups, backing up their looks with a serious pop-rock pedigree.

If you tried to transplant an internal combustion engine and gearbox into another car, you have to bring with it all the systems and everything else to communicate with each other. But in an electric car, it's much simpler.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

Intuition is natural by-product of flowering of a mature self-esteem and a sense of empowerment – not power over, but power to be

The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.

America must always be the world's paramount military power. But we can magnify our power through alliances.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.

Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

To me the bicycle is in many ways a more satisfactory invention than the automobile. It is consonant with the independence of man because it works under his own power entirely. There is no combustion of some petroleum product..to set the pedals going. Purely mechanical instruments like watches and bicycles are to be preferred to engines that depend on the purchase of power from foreign sources....The price of power is enslavement.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a Great Power we shall soon cease to be a great nation. Let us take warning from the fate of the Great Powers of the past and not burst ourselves with pride .

The transformation that happens when a young artist goes on the road - you put the acoustic guitar down and start to play the electric a little louder - it gets a little bit ragged.

I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for belief's sake. I mean there's only any point in believing something if it's true.

People will buy the car just because it's a great car. We want them to think it's excellent value for money and then, oh yeah, it happens to be electric.

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never approach their fellow human beings on an equal footing; their relationships with others are defined solely in terms of power and weakness. Therefore, they must accumulate as much power as possible, with the aim of becoming invulnerable and proving this invulnerability.

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

I was four or five, and my mom got all the Power Rangers to come through. I thought it was really them. I started crying tears of joy. It was so amazing. My favorite Power Ranger was the green one. He wasn't in every episode - he was rare, like Based God. He was like the Based God Power Ranger.

Therefore, if the earthly power errs, it shall be judged by the spiritual power ... but if the supreme spiritual power errs it can be judged only by God, and not by man ... Therefore we declare, state, define and pronounce that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a goal, this power, finally, that always does necessarily the same things in the same circumstances and nevertheless does so many and such admirable ones, is what we call 'nature' .

The power of home run hitters in the majors is different from those here. It's probably difficult for me to match that power now.

There is power in seeing a face that looks like yours do something, be someone. There is power in moving from the sidelines to the center.