Attracted To Power Quotes

#1. But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women would not willingly lie with him in the hope of bearing a son who would be every bit as ferocious as the father.

Gore Vidal

#2. Nothing about the priesthood is self-centered. The priesthood always is used to serve, to bless, and to strengthen other people.

David A. Bednar

#3. On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not have finished thinking about.

Ellen Goodman

#4. I discovered an astonishing truth: God is attracted to weakness. He can't resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him. Our weakness, in fact, makes room for his power.

Jim Cymbala

#5. Magic is attracted to good or bad and intensifies them. It fans the sparks that already lie in a man's character. The real power lies in the silence of your heart.

Deepak Chopra

#6. I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

Pierce Brosnan

#7. Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power, anxieties are created.

Malcolm X

#8. If you open the door to the magnetic power of friendship, souls of like vibrations will be attracted to you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#9. People used to ask me: 'Well, was it the power that attracted you to Bill Clinton?' And I said, well, how much power do you think the attorney general of Arkansas has? Of course not. It wasn't that for me. I just a thought he was wonderful in general.

Gennifer Flowers

#10. When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.

Ken Livingstone

#11. It's said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.

David Brin

#12. The primary social goal of both systems of political economy is for middle-aged men to attract good-looking younger women. Democratic capitalists believe that good-looking younger women are attracted mainly by money. Social democratic capitalists believe that they are attracted mainly by power.

Gary North

#13. It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.

David Hockney

#14. The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

Zaha Hadid

#15. But what are loyalty and caring really worth?"
"To me? Everything.

Richelle Mead

#16. I'm working with UNESCO on a project called 'Thirst,' which educates children all over China and promotes awareness to the fact that 300 million people in China do not have access to water.

Joyce Giraud

#17. The main function of color should be to serve expression.

Henri Matisse

#18. Friends, genuine friends, are attracted by a warm heart, not money, not power. A genuine friend considers you as just another human being, as a brother or sister, and shows affection on that level, regardless of whether you are rich or poor, or in a high position; that is a genuine friend.

Dalai Lama

#19. A dark god. And she knew that thought was her own. Because the very thing that repelled her about Raphael also attracted her. Power.

Nalini Singh

#20. It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

#21. You give to get. Whether it's helping someone or training a kid, I believe you will be rewarded in some way.

Micky Ward

#22. I refer to what I do as 'conceptual portraits,' meaning that I come up with an idea or concept that I would like to explore, and then I find people that fit that idea.

Alix Smith

#23. I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#24. Gone are the days when women were attracted by a man's hansomeness. Today, we are talking about cash, and your compromise to become a tiger in bed.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#25. A good marriage is, at least, one part conspiracy.

Gabrielle Zevin