Top 1200 Wielding Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the power of magic stones, amulets and omens.

Japan redefined world power. They showed you could become a world power without having a military.

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.

We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.

The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.

Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.

What moron said that knowledge is power? Knowledge is power only if it doesn't depress you so much that it leaves you in an immobile heap at the end of your bed.

I was so comfortable with my ballet power, my dancer power, that to have a voice, the comfort with having a voice, is slower to come to me.

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

To rebuild confidence in the power of people working together to create something better, we must give people the power to do precisely that for themselves.

Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve.

In the eighties, we had the ladies who lunch, the power lunch - everything was power. At the beginning of the nineties, things changed.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

The handover of power to [Dmitry] Medvedev was rather painless, everybody thought that the waves would calm automatically. By now, it's quite clear that [Vladimir] Putin doesn't want to relinquish the levers of power.

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.

Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

If you adopt the body language of a power player, it will greatly facilitate your ability to be a power player.

The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.

The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.

In the long run, the power of kindness can redeem beyond the power of force to destroy. There is a vast reservoir of kindness that we can no longer afford do disregard.

That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others

My favorite piece of tech gear is my SRM power meter. It's the most accurate power meter on the market.

Whatever power may be necessary for the National Government a certain portion must necessarily be left in the States. It is impossible for one power to pervade the extreme parts of the U.S. so as to carry equal justice to them.

How can we make sure that Confucianism is to be practiced? One must enforce it with power, and to have power, one must have a strong army.

When government is invested with money power it rises above the citizen and under the profession of protecting him may actually constitute the greatest threat to his well-being and safety. The power which control of the money system gives to government to interfere in and direct and even take the life of the individual should not exist on this earth. No man or group of men is warranted in holding this terrible power over fellow men.

The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin.

Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.

There are guys on Tour who hit the ball further than me. I always thought it was important to have power, but more important to have power in reserve.

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.

History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government.

If you get in a battle with someone, you don't get their power if you win. Power is something that you have to acquire yourself, through self-inquiry and the practice of meditation.

My job as energy and climate change secretary is to both power the country and protect the planet. Nuclear power delivers on both of these objectives.

So the intelligent use of power is to never interfere with anyone else's success. Use the power you get to just be more successful yourself.

There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and the creation of grooves which determined the channels of thought of readers and later writers.

They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

It was always the power of love that pulled us through, and it was the power of laughter that kept us from falling apart.

Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.

In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.

People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect individual liberty - it's there to protect us from the concentration of power.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

I didn't get that power from gunz..coz there's no gunz in jail..I got that power from books and from thinking and strategizing...... That's what I want little niggaz to see.

A man in a position of power over me used that said power to try and take advantage of me.

People in power make the path to power. It means that we will always get the same system, and it's one that is not necessarily in the interest of people's lives.

The devil has no power over us only as we permit him. The moment we revolt at anything which comes from God, the devil takes power.

My strokes are safer when I hit full power. They are unsafe when I hold back; it's more that I force myself to go full power all the time.

My dad wasn't a power hitter, and I didn't think I'd be a power hitter because the person I wanted to be like was him, and he was the one that taught me to play the game.

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.

A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

If you ask me, I think knowledge is power and and being able to do your own makeup, or someone else's makeup, is power in itself.