Writing is powerful. Whether it’s a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change. – Erin Gruwell
I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting. – Nathan Fillion
Magic has been around forever, and it’s also been in trouble forever. I’m not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic. – David Liss
In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference. – Gordon B. Hinckley
The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all. – Mia Love
If you’re lucky enough to be famous, then it’s great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter. – Michael Schumacher
Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be. – Nicolas Cage
The things that you saw earlier in your life generally have more power than the things you saw last week. – Mike Nichols
Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals. – Elisabeth Shue
The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture. – Peter Eisenman
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view. – Ernst Mach
Conservatives have deep distrust of government power, so I not only understand their privacy concerns, I share them. – Mike Pompeo
To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn’t have to be an issue. It shouldn’t box you in. – Neil Tennant
My grandfather left Cuba when Castro came into power and literally left everything. He had two suitcases and two kids and showed up in New Jersey and waited for my uncle to meet up with him. Imagine – there were no cell phones back then! – Chrissie Fit
The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power. – Mohammed Morsi
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. – Edgar Allan Poe
Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery. – Daniel De Leon
In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth’s surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline. – Nick Harkaway
Fifth Harmony as a group represents more confidence, more girl power, more unity. They’re anthems, as opposed to confessional songwriting about one person’s life when there are five individual women. – Camila Cabello
On the national stage and in the neighborhoods of New York, Senator Hillary Clinton has repeatedly put her expertise and power behind solutions that make the lives of the American people safer and more prosperous. – Ellen Malcolm
I think, growing up, I was seen as the perfect power forward. For a long time, I thought maybe I was supposed to be a basketball player. – D’Brickashaw Ferguson
Everybody’s got a puncher’s chance in this game. I mean every single person on Earth. But my whole focus, my whole style, my whole dynamic is built around taking that power away from you. So where is the logic in why you’re different from anybody else? There is no logic in it. – Dominick Cruz
In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its unique ability to provide a truly adversarial check on those in power. – Glenn Greenwald
That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity. – Charles Eastman
Six decades ago, as Mao’s Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, ‘Who lost China?’ Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, ‘Who lost America?’ – Eric Liu
I long for a South African society that’s free of ideological forces – no society can ever really be free of ideological forces – but I wish it was free of power. – Damon Galgut
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. – Edward de Bono
