#power

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#command #exchange #gives #his #history

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. ↗

— Craig Raine

#arrive #diseases #great #impatient #irresistible

You don't manifest dreams without taking chances. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually. ↗

— John Newton

#god #gradually #most #part #powerfully

I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#everyone #footing #i #like #person

Why should I be honored? Don't I have enough attention, comfort and power already? ↗

— William Nicholson

#attention #comfort #enough #honored #i

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#army #believing #control #could #haven

We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation. ↗

— Franz von Papen

#body #claim #decline #followers #nation

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#beyond #body #entity #expands #members

I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble. ↗

— Mary McDonnell

#about #being #better #discover #guess