3 December 2020 E. Stanley Jones 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.
3 December 2020 Rob Sheffield Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether we’re talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade’s non-teen culture has no staying power at all.
3 December 2020 Alexander Hamilton In the main it will be found that a power over a man’s support (salary) is a power over his will.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.
3 December 2020 Herbert Read The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals – its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
3 December 2020 Pierre de Fermat It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
3 December 2020 Andrew Jackson The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
3 December 2020 Vine Deloria, Jr. Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
3 December 2020 Kenny Loggins There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. I trust in this higher power, it is what keeps me moving forward no matter what happens.
3 December 2020 Robert Hall In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
3 December 2020 James Allen Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
3 December 2020 Francois Rabelais How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
3 December 2020 Rush Limbaugh We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
3 December 2020 Muhammad Ali Jinnah Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
3 December 2020 Shakti Gawain Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
3 December 2020 Ayn Rand Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
3 December 2020 Tony Blair I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists or surrender power. It’s your choice.
3 December 2020 Tavis Smiley We give you the facts. I told you information is power – knowledge is power. We can’t be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don’t have the facts.
