Power Quotes

What insanity would lead me to believe that I possess the power, much less the aptitude to manipulate all of the consequences out of all of my decisions?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is probable that Tom Towers considered himself the most powerful man in Europe; and so he walked on from day to day, studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god.

~ Anthony Trollope

You haven't seen god but god is always an invisible one to show you the way to understand yourself.

~ Bikash Bhandari

The question I'm most commonly asked is Why? A more pertinent question might be, why is it that more people don't attempt to escape the limitations imposed upon them? If Tracks has a message at all, it is that one can be awake to the demand for obedience that seems natural simply because it is familiar. Wherever there is pressure to conform (one person's conformity is often in the interests of another person's power), there is a requirement to resist. Of course I did not mean that people should drop what they were doing and head for the wilder places, certainly not that they should copy what I did. I meant that one can choose adventure in the most ordinary of circumstances. Adventure of the mind, or to use an old-fashioned word, the spirit.

~ Robyn Davidson

To figure out what was really happening behind the clichés, I'd learned, meant a practice of looking not at the center but at the edges of things—at the unlikeliest and weakest people, not the most apparently powerful. It meant asking lots of stupid questions, making room for inconvenient facts that didn't fit a schema, and trying to remain honest about what I didn't know.

~ Sara Miles

An avalanche starts with one pebble. A forest with one seed. And it takes one word to make the whole world stop and listen. All you need is the right one.

~ Jay Kristoff

Power will always attract the greedy and the weak.

~ Cassandra Clare

Like Bancroft, MacIntyre had been a man of power, and like all men of power, when he talked of prices worth paying, you could be sure of one thing. Someone else was paying.

~ Richard K. Morgan

At the time I could not see beyond the moral dilemma that is presented to the weak in a world governed by the strong: Break the rules, or perish.

~ George Orwell

A Winterian wielding an Autumnian weapon, using Cordellan allegiance to bring Spring crumbling down.

~ Sara Raasch

The power of speech does not rely upon meaning. Words carry energy all by themselves. They vibrate through the air, with the intention of the speaker, shaping consciousness and touching hearts whether understood or not.

~ Daniel Black

Don’t be afraid to really use your imagination. Let it run wild. It’s one of the most powerful tools you’ve got.

~ Laird Hamilton

More than power is respect. Fortunate are those who command it.

~ Amit Abraham

We three alone have the speed, skill and power to do what must be done', said Grimalkin. 'You have the Destiny Blade and Bone Cutter — in addition to the talents inherited from your mother. Alice wields powerful magic, and I am Grimalkin.

~ Joseph Delaney

Where the human knowledge ends, God's wisdom and power begins to manifest in abundance.

~ Gugu Mona

Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.

~ Theodore Roszak

The power structure understands that Black folks have been hungry for so long, fixing us a plate now that's the same size as theirs would do nothing for our hunger. After all, they're pretty full and fat.They know we now require a much bigger plate than theirs to quiet the stomach rumblings.They see us and know what it looks like to be less powerful. They are fighting to never FEEL it.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

She felt hot liquid anger suddenly cool and harden into something powerful and immovable.

~ Liane Moriarty

Whenever the balance of power was unequal, there was a driver and a driven. Power was the lethal vice, the turn-on with evil built into it, because it required a victim to manifest itself. Power implied subject and object. They needed some way to recognize (for everyone to recognize) that everybody was a subject.

~ Marge Piercy

Being a ruler is, contrary to popular notions, a calling of self-sacrifice. That is, if one wants to be a good ruler.

~ S.d. Smith

There is an undeniable web connecting incidents such as the rise to power of dictators... poverty and the perception of human beings as disposable property.

~ Beatrice Rose Roberts

The strongest force in our universe is not overriding power, but love.

~ Carl R. Rogers

That was a good straightforward point of view, no pretence that games were anything but an outlet for power and aggression; no stuff about their being enjoyable as such. You played a game to demonstrate that you did it better than someone else. If it came to that, I thought how few people do anything for its own sake, from making love to practising the arts.

~ Anthony Powell

If you are looking for a job that may make you sick, I can recommend working at a high powered solar photovoltaic (PV) utility power plant.

~ Steven Magee

It had been horrible, yes, and he'd never want to do it again - but it truly was his most powerful experience.

~ Shane Stadler

The masses have yet to realize that generating your own electricity is a potentially hazardous activity to engage in.

~ Steven Magee

The USA utility power generation industry subcontracts out their dangerous jobs so that the bad statisitics will not be associated with them. Smart people avoid working for the subcontractors. I have worked directly for a number of subcontractors and overseen subcontractors and their staff were clearly sick, showing behavioral problems and overworked. In some cases they were blatantly breaking OSHA laws. OSHA covers it all up! Unfortunately, the problems can be traced back to OSHA and their wilful lack of enforcement of the law.

~ Steven Magee

It is hard to write it in words that I can read, that re-establishes the fact that has been haunting me for the past one year.

~ Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary

It's always a risk. Wherever there is great emotion. because there is power in that. And few people handle power well.

~ Morgan Matson

Life is like a little book written With a whole lot of surprise.Spell a word that doesn´t fit inAnd that´s a spell in desguise.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Even though she was powerful enough to kill, she could also grow flowers.

~ Becky Allen

What man would have courage enough to believe he could win you? Bosque laughed. You exude power. Men are small creatures, easily cowed by those who challenge their sense of self-importance.

~ Andrea Cremer

The funny thing about power is that no matter what you think it is, or how much you think you have, it's the people above and all around you who get the final say.

~ M.l. Wang

They have influence, but no power. In my experience, influence is power.

~ Orson Scott Card

I have never been able to understand how men can feel affection for individuals who are intent on massacring them in a variety of unpleasant ways, but it is an undeniable fact that they can and do. Witness the immortal verse of Mr. Kipling: So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'home in the Soudan; You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man! One can only accept this as another example of the peculiar emotional aberrations of the male sex.

~ Elizabeth Peters

As he passed Alistair to depart the library, Bosque said, I'm pleased you didn't limit your vision. Ambition is the fertile soil in which true power can be cultivated.

~ Andrea Cremer

And when we have power- when you have power, Jae, you'll need to decide what to do with it. What kind of person you want to be. If you want to be like them.

~ Becky Allen

Sadly enough, some people are insecure in such a way that they cannot bear the thought of the sovereignty of God, the thought of His Being as greater than themselves. It makes them feel insignificant. But I know if I were to worship and obey anything, I would like it far greater than myself or any person or human system, preferably to the point that which it, perhaps, in all its majesty, makes me feel lost and even 'creatural' in my sheer humanity. Only this God - He who is great beyond human measure, yet still considers His creation precious - I find to be more than worthy of praise; otherwise, I bow down and worship nothing. And if the thought of such a superior and almighty God were to indeed offend me, I would have to remember that it is because I am only as significant as the things which I am idolizing, things which are ultimately separating me, the creation, from my original Creator.

~ Criss Jami

How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.

~ Ruta Sepetys

Lada had a sense for power--the fine threads that connected everyone around her, the way those threads could be pulled, tightened, wrapped around someone until they cut off the blood supply.Or snapped entirely.

~ Kiersten White