Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.
Roland GiftPower and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
Hannah ArendtPlans are being discussed as to who will replace Dick Cheney if he has to resign for health reasons. It's not easy for President Bush, he can't just name a replacement. He would first have to be confirmed by the oil, gas and power companies.
Jay LenoUnlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Harold ClurmanWashing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Paulo FreireIt is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
Dr Wayne DyerNo power of government ought to be employed in the endeavour to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
Jeremy BenthamConceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May AlcottPleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
De Witt ClintonWonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...
SophoclesThe power of positive thinking (Title of book)
Norman Vincent PealeOnce upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
Herbert HooverOther passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation
MontaigneMore than anything, the girl finds a way to win and finds a way to get her opponent uncomfortable. I'm sure she has a way to negate power still. [on the return of Martina Hingis]
Lindsay DavenportAh, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell BakerWords - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel HawthorneA picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
Henri MatisseEquality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore De BalzacPower may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
Jean GenetAn idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
Richard BachThe power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental. (Leviathan)
Thomas HobbesThe truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
James MadisonIf absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God? [Paraphrasing Lord Acton, presumably]
George DeaconThe virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
Brooks AndersonWill power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer'Yeah, baby! I didn't get to keep the pink baby doll outfit, but I wish I did because people are always telling me I should wear it.'
- on being a fem-bot in Austin Powers.
Cindy MargolisAppreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth.
George CraneResponsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
Ariel DorfmanA friend in every city [Thomas Power]
Thomas PowerThough they don't want to kill anybody, they like to have the power to do so
JuvenalThe two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
William Makepeace ThackerayLack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A NewhouseIt [thunderbirds march] was a really intense tune, very powerful and the whole imagery of gerry anderson who made all that stuff was really, really real to me - and those tunes were really well done - brilliant orchestration.
Adrian UtleyIt is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.
Marya MannesTo enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun
Robert BurtonThe most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
Edwin LandPatience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
Leonardo Da VinciPower is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength
Edward Bulwer-LyttonWisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Thomas J WatsonA bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance, but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
John GalbraithYou always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
W Clement StoneWe will do everything in our power to make certain that this is as painless a process as possible for the benefit of the children [on divorcing Jude Law]
Sadie FrostIt is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.
Emily CarrFascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power
Benito MussoliniComedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.
Paul GoodmanEverything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
Dr Wayne DyerYou know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' Need I say more?
Chris RockThere is a powerful tension in our relationship to technology. We are excited by egalitarianism and anonymity, but we constantly fight for our identity.
David OwensLabour have already given parents the power to draw up plans for their own schools
Jim KnightHe that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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