Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.
In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.
Enthusiasm. . the sustaining power of all great action
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against harpies who seduce young girls seeking an honest livelihood; not only better chaperonage of young girls in exposed occupations; not only better opportunities for natural enjoyment of youthful pleasure under morally safe conditions; not only these - but most of all, greater power on the part of the average young girl to earn her own support under right conditions and for a living wage.
You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power
Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.
I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
Some springs are acid, as at Lyncestus and in Italy in the Velian country, at Teano in Campania, and in many other places. These when used in drinks have the power of breaking up stones in the bladder, which form in the human body.
There is power in corporate fasting and power in corporate praise.
The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself.
Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do.
There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make themselves so, if they please.
The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. . . . In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.
I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.
People who are really efficient seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In doing so they release maximum power.
As the Lord put on the body, leaving behind all principality and power, so Christians put on the Holy Spirit, and are at rest.
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
