What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy!
~ Joseph Pulitzer
Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
~ Allen Klein
One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
~ Françoise Sagan
I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.
~ John Wells
Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
~ J. Tillman
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
~ John F. Kennedy
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
~ Julius Caesar
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
~ Neville Chamberlain
Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.
~ George Soros
In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
~ Zaha Hadid
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.
~ Lincoln Chafee
Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.
~ Henry A. Wallace
The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
~ Charles Evans Hughes
Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
~ Douglas Coupland
If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be able to hold her own without failure. But as soon as foreign nations use political power as a shield for their economic designs, then China is at a loss how to resist or to compete successfully with them.
~ Sun Yat-Sen
The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure.
~ John Caudwell
Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
~ Dan Buettner
Right from my childhood, I have believed in a Supreme Power. I don't know whether it has form, or it is formless. I am a high school dropout. How come life has given me so much? It's not my intelligence, it's not my abilities. This understanding makes me scared even in success. I don't own my success. Neither do I own my failure.
~ Pawan Kalyan
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
~ Jimi Hendrix
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
~ Washington Irving
I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.
~ Mike May
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
~ Theodor Adorno
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
~ Robert Burton
There is no limit to the power of loving.
~ John Morton
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
~ Theodore Dreiser
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
~ Benjamin Spock
Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?
~ Sloane Crosley
Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious - it's almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It's not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you're five, but it would be nice if there were some other options.
~ Robert Webb
If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.
~ Henry Reed
Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.
~ Robbie Coltrane
I'm thinking, 'Man, there's this whole other group of people that are attached to me because of my last name and my family's roots.' That's pretty cool. That's special, that's a lot of power and it's important.
~ Mark Sanchez
I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power.
~ Henry Rollins
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
~ Yehuda Berg
I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
~ Yoko Ono
The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.
~ Tariq Ramadan
There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words in similar ways over and over so often that the words become more of a recitation than a communication.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.
~ Deborah Eisenberg
When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform and delivering transport and power generation and broadband communication infrastructure, we are talking about raising Britain's productivity.
~ Philip Hammond
