Power Quotes

"I've said all along that God is in control."

"If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail."

"I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer."

"For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic."

"There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past."

"If other people want to talk about my future I can't control that."

"The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future."

"The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future."

"If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future."

"We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again."

"For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end."

"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."

"Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'"

"Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have."

"I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know."

"Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow."

"My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty."

"It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown."

"There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny."

"I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more."

"There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together."

"Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object."

"I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen."

"Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society."

"People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable."

"A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths."

"It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control."

"Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself."

"When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom."

"Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'"

"To us Americans much has been given of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power."

"Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom."

"Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism."

"The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action."

"People demand freedom only when they have no power."

"To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves."

"America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people."

"Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression."

"When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society."

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

"We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun."

"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."

"Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual."

"I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba."

"You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well."

"It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion."

"Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives."

"When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar."

"The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to."

"Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that."