India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries. – Bobby Jindal
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln
I didn’t give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn’t understand the power of periodization. – Alberto Salazar
After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through. – Adam Rickitt
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. – Augustus Hare
I doubt there’s any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs – the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited. – Barton Gellman
The power of a person derives not from the office he occupies but from a clear sense of direction and aspiration and from a willingness to struggle for his ways and beliefs. – Ariel Sharon
When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body. – C. Northcote Parkinson
The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don’t mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power… stuff that’s very close to us. – Christopher Alexander
The zenith of elegance in any woman’s wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement. – Andre Leon Talley
My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead the international community to confront threats and challenges together, and that we must use all tools of American power to protect our citizens and our interests. – Chuck Hagel
It’s a really important thing for Aboriginal people to remember how stories are told and the power of stories, and make it an important feature in our world again. – Alexis Wright
I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words. – Ann Hood
The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power. – Bianca Jagger
The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one’s power to those humans who deserve it. – Apollonius of Tyana
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. – Alexander Graham Bell
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. – Angelina Grimke
I don’t actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power – when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don’t reflect the balance of political opinion in the country – can corrupt absolutely. – Charles Kennedy
A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don’t want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous ‘girl power’ sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it’s a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. – Ani DiFranco
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune. – Charles de Secondat
I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people’s minds. That’s pretty powerful stuff when you consider that. – Nicolas Cage
It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in ‘The Practice’ than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both. – Michael Emerson
Because of the power of neuroplasticity, you can, in fact, reframe your world and rewire your brain so that you are more objective. You have the power to see things as they are so that you can respond thoughtfully, deliberately, and effectively to everything you experience. – Elizabeth Thornton
It’s not that I’m a ‘Let’s hug and be joyful all the time’ boss. Or that I don’t, quote, ‘own my own power.’ I just never want to be that big, swingin’, rule-by-fear person. – Megyn Kelly
The Antichrist is often identified with the second beast in the Book of Revelation that arises from the land, the beast that tries to make everyone worship the power of evil. – Elaine Pagels
