Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Abigail Adams
PowerBrokenHardThingsLikeMost
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.
Marya Mannes
PowerSocietyThinkRealReflect
I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.
Jose Andres
PowerFoodTogetherMemoryPeople
Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.
Jill Scott
MotherHomePowerChildrenWoman
The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.
Bobby Seale
CommunityPowerPeopleDestinyBlack
Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.
Ramez Naam
ChangePowerEnergyMeetingGrowing
My goal was to leverage the power of movies and the reach they have and include important messages. Of course, they still have to be entertaining so that people will watch them, but I wanted to make sure there was a message, a takeaway.
Jeffrey Skoll
PowerPeopleReachGoalMoviesWill
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
Pericles
KnowledgePowerIdeasBetterNever
Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
Ice Cube
TruthPowerTruth IsHideRunLies
The genius of Rachel Dolezal's transracial achievement is that it has nearly limitless applications. Rachel is taking 'the power of positive thinking' to a whole new level.
Tom Tancredo
PositivePowerAchievementThinking
Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.
Louise Mensch
LifePowerMoneyControlMy Life
When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.
Chevy Chase
PowerPeopleEveningYouTelevision
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
Walter Pater
BeautyPowerBeautifulImportant
These are old issues. Female power, misogyny, the treatment of women, how you make meaning in the world. And these are all issues that I've been thinking about and writing about for a very long time.
Meg Wolitzer
WomenPowerTimeWritingWorldYou
People who are denied access to power are also denied the opportunity to make or influence decisions to live a better life out of poverty and claim their rights.
Winnie Byanyima
LifeLiveOpportunityPowerPeople
I believe that every leader has a right to implement his own policy. But when I see things that are done that are not right - abuse of power, wrong approaches, wrong strategies, making use of foreign consultants, including those discarded by other countries - I feel that I have to have my say.
Mahathir Mohamad
LeaderPowerBelieveFeelWrongSay
If you stay true to yourself and true to your vision and your own values, you can power through and make an impact on modern life.
Steve Bannon
LifePowerVisionYourselfImpact
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
Calvin Coolidge
PowerSpiritualIntellectualNeed
I'm God because I have the power to control my mind.
Roseanne Barr
GodPowerMindControlBecause
Especially in the food business, critics take very seriously how much power they have. They can shut a restaurant down.
Jon Favreau
BusinessPowerFoodRestaurantDown
Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.
Joan Kirner
ChangePowerDecisionPoliticsYou
Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.
Bryant H. McGill
PowerPersonSometimesNothingWill
I will occasionally take power naps on weekends and agree that they can be re-energizing.
Rana el Kaliouby
PowerWillWeekendsTakeAgreeNaps
Gollum has a weak personality and isn't able to cope with the power of the ring.
Andy Serkis
PowerPersonalityRingWeakAble
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