People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written them because she brought such a power and passion to them that were very unique. She has a great gift.
We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.
Power is the by-product of understanding.
Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power.
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.
I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.
Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.
I'd say people recognize me, but having children recognize me is the best. It is a very special thing. Suddenly you feel like you have the power to make the children's dreams come true, and it's better than anything else.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.
At President Obama's direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America's innovators and entrepreneurs to build a green energy economy.
When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.
Gollum has a weak personality and isn't able to cope with the power of the ring.
If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
It seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place. But they could.
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems.
Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.
The diminishing economic role of the United States in the global economy means that global political power will also become more dispersed. The world will become multipolar. By clumsily re-asserting a wish for U.S. dominance, Donald Trump is accelerating the opposite.
Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.
The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N.
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
You can love and hate your family with equal measure, but the power of the bond you have to have with them, you can't really ever walk away.
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.
Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
