Driving a powerboat is a bit like having one person throw a bucket of water over you while another hits you with a baseball bat.
Steve CurtisDiplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
Barbara TuchmanWith the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
Norman MailerPower is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
Michel FoucaultHow many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.
Emo PhilipsPower is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret ThatcherDemocracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney HarrisThe imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace StevensTime, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth
Thomas HuxleyOn fellow Popstars judge Simon Cowell: I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.
Paula AbdulThe essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
James MadisonThe increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness
David MoirIf you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed.
Sparky AndersonWill power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Arthur SchopenhauerBeware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheLiberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it... The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow WilsonPower is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Honore De BalzacProperly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra PoundThe mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin WilsonDeep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
Orison Swett MardenHe is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Sir Walter ScottWhen you realise that you possess within your self everything you need to promote your own success, the feeling is one of empowerment.
James FixxThe 'w' in ECB is silent but very powerful.
[being a bad loser after a Welsh county got a 2009 Ashes test ahead of the Rose Bowl. The 5 adjudicators were English]
Rod BransgroveThere is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
Orison Swett MardenPower is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
GalbraithYes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.
Roland GiftWhen you look at electrical things you can see that they are made of small and big wires, cheap and expensive all lined up. Until the current runs through them there will be no light. Those wires are you and me and the current is God. We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us and produce the light of the world or we can refuse to be used and allow darkness to spread.
Mother TeresaAs the infection of sin spreadeth itself throughout the whole soul, and all the faculties and powers thereof, so doth the work of the Spirit of God.
George GillespieBeware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.
Edgar Lee MastersDo I use my powers for evil? Well of course!
Paul McKennaExcept our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene DescartesThe men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves
Robert BurtonLaws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
Sir Thomas MoreAh, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell BakerA teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
Thomas SzaszClairvoyant: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
Ambrose BierceBeauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
Jean Paul RichterConcentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Milton FriedmanThe four rural counties in the district also received wind and rain damage and experienced power outages affecting thousands of families.
Jo BonnerThe great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy
Meryl StreepMost powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
SenecaTo enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun
Robert BurtonCharacter is power.
Booker T WashingtonPower is my mistress
Napoleon BonaparteI do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley'Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take'
Jock EwingThere were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power
Francois De Salignac FenelonBeing the President, we all know, is the most powerful of all the jobs that anyone can have, the influence and state of the nation being what it is right now.
David FrumBut the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.
Joshua L ChamberlainWomen have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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