961 private quotes tagged power

“I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.”— Nate Silver

“The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.”— Jon Meacham

“Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.”— Joy Page

“But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power.”— Joshua Chamberlain

“The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.”— Craig T. Nelson

“The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.”— Pearl S. Buck

“Biology always beats will power.”— Mehmet Oz

“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.”— Lewis Mumford

“I am on the power toothbrush train and I'm asking people to try to using an Oral B power toothbrush. I just started using one and I cannot believe that I waited this long to use a power toothbrush. It's so much easier than using a manual toothbrush.”— Sherri Shepherd

“Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't.”— Ron Wyden

“I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.”— Nathan Fillion

“Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer.”— Nick Rahall

“I have hair that I audition with, my sitcom hair which is a curly wig. I have my long chic hair that I wear to my son's school so they know I'm not playing around. I always tell people that my husband gets a different woman every night when I come home from 'The View.' Hair makes you feel a certain way, like putting a power suit on.”— Sherri Shepherd

“I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.”— Nathan Fillion

“When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.”— Jeff Goodell

“The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.”— Charles de Montesquieu

“I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists or surrender power. It's your choice.”— Tony Blair

“Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.”— Michael Jackson

“The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.”— Thomas Malthus

“Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.”— E. Stanley Jones

“Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.”— Jeff Goodell

“Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.”— Rainn Wilson

“This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?”— Jerry Lewis

“In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.”— Jeff Goodell

“The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.”— Jon Meacham