#power

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#consent #depress #down #hardship #influence

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#feel #give #people #power #powerless

I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered. ↗

— Julie Christie

#did #empowered #films #heaven #i

Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship. ↗

— Fred Upton

#bill #bureaucrats #care #change #decide

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#get #hollywood #i #i think #intrigued

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#enough #good #heads #hearts #intoxicate

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#most powerful #patience #powerful #time #two

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#argument #been #greater #his #persuade

Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#dependence #falling #feeling #his #know

I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#brokers #build #care #clout #customer