I believe in the power of books. They’re like a portable life.

Great stories resonate because they tap into universal truths; that’s the power of compelling characters

I always find that the very perception of beauty is always a kind of strange power.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

The written word has the power to change the world

Words have the power to transcend time and space.

Words have the power to heal or wound.

Words have the power to heal, to transform, to connect us to one another

The power of storytelling lies in its ability to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar

The power of literature is that it brings us inside a person, a situation, a place, and allows us to see the world through their eyes.

Niagara Falls Power Company chose to go with AC current to feed the industry of Buffalo, which became briefly known as the electric city of the future

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate … the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country

Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too

Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I’d have killed myself right away.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

English fans love spectacular players like Alan Shearer and that is exactly what United have now signed. He has magic in his boots. The first thing you notice about him is that he is incredibly quick and very, very powerful for such a young man. He has great, close control and his technique is excellent. He believes he can do anything with the ball, and that confidence makes him very special indeed.

Perhaps only when human effort had done it’s best and failed, would God’s power alone be free to work.

A man is powerful on his knees.

We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the “whole armour of God,” that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground.

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

I think the power of the mind is amazing, and we’ve barely scratched the surface of what it can do.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish… The trouble is you won’t fight. You’ve given in, continually dwelling on sickness and death. But there’s something just as inevitable as death, and that’s life. Life, life, life. Think of all the power that’s in the universe, moving the earth, growing the trees. That’s the same power within you if you only have the courage and the will to use it.

We might as well preach to stone walls as preach to humanity unless the Holy Ghost be with the word, to give it power to convert the soul.

Vision is the ability to see God’s presence, to perceive God’s power, to focus on God’s plan in spite of the obstacles.

The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.

To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy’s power to frustrate it.

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.