Top 1200 Electrical Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit mass murder, love must harness power and seek justice in order to have moral meaning. Love without power remained impotent, and power without love was bankrupt.

The power is within you. It always has been. How far are you willing to expand the horizons of your thinking and stir that power awake?

Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.

Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.

The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. The more constrained the power of governments, the more power is diffused, checked, and balanced, the less it will aggress on others and commit democide.

There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to accumulate power. The problem that we come into is conditioning.

When water power then steam power were harnessed to spin and weave cloth, a cottage craft turned into an industry overnight.

See, governments are overrated. They come and go in 5 or 10 years; it is we who have the power. But we are like Hanuman in 'Ramayan,' who needed to be reminded of his power.

Since the death of Nikola Tesla in 1943, his life has deserved a worthy biography. Bernard Carlson has delivered that in Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, which portrays Tesla as intensely human. . . . Anyone, whether simply an interested reader or a professional historian, engineer, or physicist, will finish Tesla with a deepened understanding of his world, character, and accomplishments.

Fear unchecked grows exponentially. Love poured forth has the power to remove it. Thus is the power of God in our lives

We now have power under the Dodd-Frank legislation to break up banks. And I've said I will use that power if they pose a systemic risk.

If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything.

These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.

If there is anything of power in The Salvation Army today, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.

...with what we spent in Iraq we could build nuclear power plants and space solar power satellites and tell the Arabs to drink their oil.

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.

Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom.

My Cop Stopper was a Pokémon ball that you push the button and then Tesla's coils go in and the chemical compound reactions go, so it's an electrical ball so once you throw it out the window usually, in my idea of robbing a bank, I'd go through an alley way, and what this Pokémon ball would do, is it hits the metal of the cop car .

If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.

When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.

There’s only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.

All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

I do believe that power needs to be returned to the states. I think that we've got way too much power in Washington. This is where I'm focused: way too much power in Washington.

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.

I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.

I don't want the power. When a project is given to me, and I say yes, I'm gonna oblige everybody who has the power to try to make it work.

Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to "prove their love" like a moose needs a hat rack.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.

Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.

Do you think that civilization advances because of things written in books? Not a bit of what is written in books ever got there until after the thought of it happened in someone's mind. Someone first had to collect it from space, or recollect it from its electrical pattern to which he (or she) had been attuned. The book is but a record of what has already happened.

The President appoints the U.S. Attorneys. They're political in a certain respect. But the Department of Justice - the power that they hold is so great, it's life and limb, you know - put you in jail, make you run up hundreds of thousands of dollars of legal costs. Even though we understand that political appointees take these jobs. We don't assume that the party in power is going to use that kind of power to advance its political interests.

'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.

Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.

The power of Bernie Sanders was not only in his email list. The centers of power were local groups that formed on Facebook and Reddit.

In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when i get home the only thing i have power over is the garbage.

We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.

The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is.

There's an amazing power that music has, and it definitely had its power over me as a boy. I just saw fit to keep exploring it.

Intermittency [in availability for wind and solar] changes the economics, particularly this requirement that the power company at all times be able to require power. That's large.

Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.

Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Where the daughter sees power, the mother feels powerless. Daughters and mothers, I found, both overestimate the other's power - and underestimate their own.

I was very, very concerned about President Obama and how much executive order and how much executive power he tried to exert. But I think I want to be, and I think congress will be, a check on any executive, Republican or Democrat, that tries to grasp too much power. And really, a lot of the fault is not only presidents trying to take too much power, it's Congress giving up too much power.

Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.

It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.

While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.

The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.