#Power

"First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success."

"To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute."

"Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see."

"Love without hope will not survive.Love without faith changes nothing.Love gives power to hope and faith."

"This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills."

"Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own."

"Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls."

"But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung."

"Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace."

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."

"Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form."

"One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again."

"I only want power so I can get books."

"Believe God for something today. Prayer is the key to connecting with God and allowing Him to speak to your spirit. Open your heart and free your mind."

"She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water."

"Today is the only day in which we have any power."

"Word of mouth—it's more powerful, more convincing, and more audible than word of hand. If you need me, I’ll be in the audience clapping."

"It’s not who you know that matters—it’s who knows you that’s important. Personal branding builds up your reputation to the point where you have a presence even in your absence."

"America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage."

"The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power."