This quote is a simple lesson in commitment and the power in giving something our all—not just giving it a try.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It’s curative. It is creative.

O thou great, unknown Power! Thou Almighty God, who hast lighted up reason in my breast and blessed me with immortality! I have frequently wandered from that order and regularity necessary for the perfection of thy works, yet thou hast never left me nor forsaken me.

No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

Power always has to be kept in check power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

I'm not Gloria Steinem, but I mean, I'm definitely all for powerful women.

The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro - as was intended by the Germans.

Some newspapers in Britain have become closer to these kind of mafia families. They wield an incredible power. They choose our governments, they choose our prime ministers, and they live above the law.

I used to dream about Gorbachev before he lost power. I'd go into a panic because I was meeting him, and I had nothing to wear. I'd ask my brother what to do, and he'd tell me to wear my dressing gown. I'd tell him I can't - it's too horrible. He'd tell me to wear his as well. So I'd meet Gorbachev wearing two dressing gowns.

I just don't believe in love at first sight anymore, even though I've based my whole career on the concept. In my experience, power, money and influence always attract the opposite sex. It's something that I've always exploited - with good results.

The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.

The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

Women don't realize how powerful they are.

And if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man we have the very same evidence that the power which executed it is in him also.

We thought because we had power we had wisdom.

Every indication of wisdom taken from the effect is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.