Power Quotes

"My mom was a big 'Smurfs' fan, so she would force me to watch every Saturday morning. I had no choice in the matter. I would jump downstairs on Saturday morning, 'Hurray, cartoons!' and she would say, 'Smurfs! That's what you're watching.'"

"I was a big fan of 'The Smurfs' growing up, even though by default - my mom used to force me to watch because she was a 'Smurfs' fan."

"My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something. And while we were looking into that, we also thought I should get into theater acting, so I tried it and the first audition I went on, I booked it. And it kind of just snowballed from there."

"The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes."

"President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's."

"I love my mom. I totally look up to her, and she just doesn't let anybody take advantage of me. People might call that a stage mom."

"My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control."

"If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life."

"With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information."

"Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I'm on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you're constantly worrying about things."

"The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born."

"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."

"All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree."

"It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal."

"It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores."

"Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter."

"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

"As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can."

"Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."

"In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise."

"Women may fall when there's no strength in men."

"Force always attracts men of low morality."

"He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them."

"I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon."

"Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her."

"Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America."

"But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?"

"The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell."

"The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord."

"I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage."

"A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love."

"It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not."

"Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible."

"I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't."

"Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love."

"A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world."

"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."

"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."

"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love this is the eternal rule."

"To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun."

"There is no limit to the power of loving."

"Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love."

"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."

"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things."

"I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity."

"Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life."

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?"

"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life."

"One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular."

"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."