#power

My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#before #bosnia #closing #could #create

My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#control #form #ice #into #molecules

A word after a word after a word is power. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#power #word

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#clues #compressed #fist #hold #i

After visiting these two places (Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's lair on Obersalzberg) you can easily see how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country, which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#hatred #legend #mystery #power #understanding

I could not understand how it could move under its own power. And when it had driven past me, without even thinking why I found myself chasing it down the road, as hard as I could run. ↗

— Soichiro Honda

#could #down #down the road #driven #even

Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#approaches #early #give #normally #powerful

Knowledge is power. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#knowledge #knowledge is power

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#little #maintain #only #powerful #states

In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#care #fact #going #i #i think