Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: power

I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Life is not decided by lines on a palm but by the power of the will, hard work and discipline.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

I feel like knowledge is power: If you know how to take care of yourself, you can be a better version of yourself.

Lipstick is the most valuable weapon in a woman's make-up kit. It has the power to transform the appearance and mood of the person wearing it, and, at the same time, arouses the admiration of everybody else.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.

I was born on an island with 96 percent of the people black. But all the power and the economy was in the hands of white people who only formed four per cent.

One of the epidemics in our industry is the abuse of power.

Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.

Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

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

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

Control is the source of strategic power.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Born in poverty, he will take supreme power. He will bankrupt the country. Raising an army in the Milanese marches, he will drain Faenza and Florence of gold and people.

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

I've always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don't care. I really believe we are all a part of God.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.

I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.

All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

I believe in the power of weakness.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.