Power Quotes

"I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm."

"You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat."

"I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board."

"We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might."

"The war waged against terror since September 11 puts a strain on democracy itself, because it is mostly waged in secret, using means that are at the edge of both law and morality. Yet democracies have shown themselves capable of keeping the secret exercise of power under control."

"Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment."

"Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material."

"No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back."

"The challenge of directing and interviewing helped me with confidence, and I learnt so much. If I hadn't had the brain hemorrhage, I might never have done it."

"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."

"Women have had the power of naming stolen from us."

"You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground."

"Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place, because nuclear power and nuclear weapons go hand in hand."

"To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing."

"I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own."

"Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one."

"Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane. Our overidentification with the world does not give us power within the world so much as it diminishes our power here. It makes us frightened and nervous and full of anxiety."

"So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been."

"We'll make our voices heard loud and clear on the importance of cost-based power."

"No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciouslywhether she will or will not be a mother."