In my early 20s, a friend and I worked for a few months on a sheep farm in New Zealand. Working with ewes, I learned a lot about the power of wool – how it keeps you cool when you’re hot, warm when you’re cold, dry when you’re wet.
In a democracy there are only two types of power: there’s organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when people aren’t organized.
The mark of our society as civilized will come when we embrace confidence in the power of redemption.
By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.
Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it’s not always that clear.
I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.
Every day alive in the ‘Power’ world is a beautiful day.
We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.
The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It’s personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. It has a unique scent. It requires deciphering. But, most important, it’s flawed.
The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
Sometimes a woman’s looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
Desire creates the power.
Red is one of the strongest colors, it’s blood, it has a power with the eye. That’s why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well… In fact I use red in all of my paintings.
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
I would encourage you: be informed – knowledge is power.
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy!
Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
