Power Quotes

"The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering."

"Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does or that his soul might die without his knowing it?"

"A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule."

"The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with."

"I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature."

"It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self."

"There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power."

"Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin."

"Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements."

"Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble."

"The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life."

"I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit."

"To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult."

"The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour."

"Water is the driving force of all nature."

"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."

"I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music."

"I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them."

"The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together."

"As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually."

"I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records."

"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often."

"Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together."

"I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay."

"I've seen a lot of movies get made where no one has control. No one likes it."

"The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks."

"When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be."

"When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see."

"It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it."

"In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power."

"Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay."

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

"The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning."

"In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night."

"Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night."

"You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good."

"Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital."

"I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child."

"If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States."

"There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful."

"We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal this somehow 'excuses' what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money."

"Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor."

"The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians."

"I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force."

"I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it."

"Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost."

"New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent."

"Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers."

"Money is a mechanism for control."

"It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money."