It is impossible to have a prayer without power.
Full of hopes beyond their power though not beyond their ambition.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.
I am going to say something that will knock your lights off. God has the power to take life but he can't. He's got the power to do it but he won't. He's bound, he can't. He says, "Death and life are in the power" of whose tongue? Yours.
I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science. If there is any such concept as a God, it is a subtle spirit, not an image of a man that so many have fixed in their minds. In essence, my religion consists of a humble admiration for this illimitable superior spirit that reveals itself in the slight details that we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.
we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.
Wherever there is power there is age.
When one trusts this inner universal power, it automatically draws forth the trust of the people one deals with.
That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.
I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my mills, my Metal, my hours at a desk, at a furnace, in a laboratory, in an ore mine, as I love my ability to work, as I love the act of sight and knowledge, as I love the action of my mind when it solves a chemical equation or grasps a sunrise, as I love the things I've made and the things I've felt, as *my* product, as *my* choice, as a shape of my world, as my best mirror, as the wife I've never had, as that which makes all the rest of it possible: as my power to live.
Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
There was human goodness in the world, she thought-all caught up with desires and dreams, regrets and bitterness, resentments and power, but it was there.
Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.
That power is in vain which is never in use.
I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power.
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.