#power

The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son. ↗

— Judy Collins

#believed #husband #life #me #men

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#failure #lighting #power #sometimes

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#exert #fields #itself #life #likely

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#gentlemen #idealism #noble #over #political

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants. ↗

— George W. Bush

#crunch #enough #generating #plants #power

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone. ↗

— Laura Bush

#alone #book #books #into #lies

It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#been #cases #congress #constitutional #despite

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#power #reform #revolution #transfer

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch. ↗

— George Byron

#any #common #common sense #fact #had

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#men #must #never #power #surrendered