Top 1200 More Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The MORE you Trust in the Arm of the FLESH, the LESS you're going to see of the POWER of GOD.

They say Latina women are spicy. But we are more than that. We have power, and we run things.

The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.

Growing up as an amateur, I wasn't much of a power puncher. I was more of a speed guy.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

I'm of the minority opinion that presidents should be given more power for less time.

If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely.

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

My personal philosophy is, talk about whatever you want on a show, but it better be good. And especially if it's something that challenges folks. You don't want to be on the side of power to demean a group that is at risk. Because that's propaganda. Whenever you're on the side of power, you're not making art. Art upends power.

He who does the most good is the greatest man. Power, authority, dignity, honors, wealth and station--these are so far valuable as they put it into the hands of men to be more exemplary and more useful than they could be in an obscure and private life. But then these are means conducting to an end, and that end is goodness.

The more grateful you are for everything good that comes into your life, the more closely you place your mind in contact with that power in life that can produce greater good.

Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.

Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes say the opposite of what I think and the lines get blurred, but I can only hope that some kind of absolute power transcends.

A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning of such power); it subsequently becomes dominant when it exercises power, but even if it holds it firmly in its grasp, it must continue to 'lead' as well.

Have you more faith in a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

The free market is not only a more efficient decision maker than even the wisest central planning body, but even more important, the free market keeps economic power widely dispersed.

As I have often written, power is the fundamental ingredient of the human experience. Every action in life, every thought, every choice we make-even down to what we wear and whether we are seating in first class or coach-represents a negotiation of power somewhere on the scale of power that constitutes life.

Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters.

What is behind your eyes holds more power than what is in front of them.

It is necessary to bring our life in order, to examine each thing, and ask ourselves if it is bringing power into our life or if it is draining us. Ask yourself, is your life taking power from you or adding power to you?

Saying "no" has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined.

It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and destroy. Power to bring pleasure and pain. Power to amuse and horrify. There was in that hand the demonic and the divine at one and the same time. The demonic and the divine were two aspects of the same force. Creation was demonic and divine. Creativity was demonic and divine. I was demonic and divine.

Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.

We humans have an abyss inside us. The more power people have, the greater the danger.

What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

The world has become more diversified, with women becoming a real power of change.

It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.

Not the power to conquer others but the power to become one with others is the ultimate power.

Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

Judas is neither a master of evil nor the figure of a demoniacal power of darkness but rather a sycophant who bows before the anonymous power of changing moods and current fashions. But it is precisely this anonymous power that crucified Jesus, for it was anonymous voices that cried 'away with him! Crucify him!'

Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality. Buildings were judged more by the way they looked in magazines than by the satisfaction people felt when using them.

The Territory has more than 200 trillion cubic feet of gas: potentially enough gas to power Australia for more than 200 years.

It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.

All devices should just sip power and be charged like a calculator is, with a small solar cell. No power adaptors. It's easy to put a solar cell into a device, but it's not powerful enough to drive today's cell phones or laptops. They need too much power to run.

Almost all the United Commonwealth presidents have been female. It has been argued that women are less aggressive, more maternal, and thus more focused on the well-being of the country's people. Less focused on politics or power.

One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep going. More and more television sets. More and more cars. More and more steel, and more and more pollution. We don't question whether we need any more or what we'll do with them. We just have to keep on making more and more if we are to keep going. Sooner or later it's going to collapse. ... Look what we have done already with the principle of more and more when it comes to nuclear weapons.

I think Rachel Maddow has done a brilliant job in becoming more and more independent. And I think she does a fantastic progressive show, and she did it by accruing power, by getting better and better ratings.

With one eye on today's blessings you will have more staying power for the distant goal.

No one runs your life unless you let them. And you have more power than you think.

We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality.

Conservatives are much more comfortable supporting the leader who's in power than liberals.

Knowledge is NOT power. Knowledge is only POTENTIAL power. Action is power.

I judge property myself by its net earning power; that is the only rule I have been able to get.... This whole island [Manhattan] was once bought for a few strings of beads. But now you will find this property valued by its earning power, by its rent power, and that is the way to value a railroad or telegraph.

More power to [Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty] if they can get someone's attention.

I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision.

Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I'm lonely.

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

Drink has shed more blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy, armed more villains, slain more children, snapped more wedding rings, defiled more innocence, blinded more eyes, dethroned more reason, wrecked more manhood, dishonored more womanhood, broken more hearts, blasted more lives, driven more to suicide and dug more graves than any other evil that has cursed the world.

When you deny something your power is much more conspicuous than when you approve it.

As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet I refuse to make political art. More often than not political art fails as politics, and all too often it fails as art. To reach its fullest power, to be most moving and most fully useful to us, art must be itself.

In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.