Top 100 Quotes About No Power
#1. I wanted to scream with the pain, scream with the feeling of death pressing so close but I clenched my teeth together, grinding then until my head pounded and forced my trembling legs to stand. I had always been stubborn, wilful and no power on earth could change that.
Hannah Blatchford
#2. In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything.
Lloyd Cutler
#4. The one truth he knew above all else was that faith had no power unless it was chosen freely.
Ryk Brown
#5. There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations
Michel Foucault
#7. Painful things do not come to us from outside, but arise from within our own mind. Circumstances or other people have no power to make us feel bad; the most they can do is trigger the potentials for painful feelings that already exist within our own mind.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#8. They have no power to improve their lives, but they have the power to make others even more miserable. And the only way to prove to yourself that you have power is to use it. Then
Octavia E. Butler
#9. The congress of the United States possesses no power to regulate, or interfere with the domestic concerns, or police of any state: it belongs not to them to establish any rules respecting the rights of property; nor will the constitution permit any prohibition of arms to the people.
St. George Tucker
#10. Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance. There is something so very dreadful in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.
John Henry Newman
#11. I might think that equality has been achieved, there is no power relation going on in terms of class, race, or gender, I might just want to drink my latte and buy pretty shoes and write books about girls who marry, die, or go insane, then go get my nails done.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#12. Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words on the other hand, were a lifeline. They left their hushed rhythm behind, a counter to the slow in and out of Emmeline's breathing.
Diane Setterfield
#13. 'Sex drives us, love or no love. Power or no power. Money or no money. It's the most powerful drug in the world. Some pay for it. Some die for it.'
Vicki Pettersson
#14. Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
Baltasar Gracian
#15. There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is we get better at living like Christ, which is something we all want, right?
Joyce Meyer
#16. The economy has made me think I have no power. That is not true. I control the power to change my future.
Jon Jones
#17. The absolute truth is that there is no power in celebrity.
Bill Cosby
#18. The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws ...
Stephen Fry
#19. No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.
Justina Chen
#20. What you say can haunt you; what you do not has no power over you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#21. No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit
Oswald Chambers
#22. She nodded, knowing that he toyed with her, lightening her anguish, but she had no power in this exchange.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#23. Hungry for what? Money? No. Power? Over people? That was like having power over clams.
Victor Robert Lee
#24. Persons without education certainly do not want [lack] either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction
they see their objects always near, never in the horizon.
William Hazlitt
#25. By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.
William Shakespeare
#26. You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
Major Owens
#27. I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.
Robert Greene
#28. To be a fantastic writer, live in your dreams and imaginations where you can dance like a peacock, swim like a shark, and fly like a butterfly. Live where reality has no power to change you.
Debasish Mridha
#29. The apostle enters upon his subject thus - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no power but of God: the powers that be, are ordained of God.
Jonathan Mayhew
#30. Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
Andre Gide
#31. Over the times thou hast no power ... Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.
Thomas Carlyle
#32. In my own country I am in a far off land.
I am strong but have no power.
I win all yet remain a loser.
At break of day I say goodnight.
When I lie down I have great fear of falling.
Francois Villon
#33. There are things known - things experienced, felt, and understood - that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance and does them injustice.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#34. No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#35. There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. Washington
#36. It's because you have no power. You give them all the material and the cinematographer, the director, the editor, boy what they can choose ... You better hope they like you because they can slice and dice and make you look like a damn fool when your face and body are up there on a 30-foot screen.
William Mapother
#37. Whatever fascination Lymond held for her mother, it had no power at five in the morning.
Dorothy Dunnett
#38. No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution.
James Madison
#39. Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.
John Marshall
#40. And from that day to this, no power on earth can keep a rabbit out of a vegetable garden, for El-ahrairah prompts them with a thousand tricks, the best in the world.
Richard Adams
#41. The past is over, so it has no power now. The thoughts of this moment create my future.
Louise Hay
#42. Most of the early modern scientists were Christians; they believed that matter was *not* preexisting, but had come from the hand of God. Thus, it had no power to resist His will but would obey he rules He had laid down- with mathematical precision.
Nancy Pearcey
#43. We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.
John Owen
#44. Great. He had a ranch with no power, a burgeoning blizzard, animals depending on him and now, a frightened, felonious elf to look after.
Roxanne Snopek
#45. A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
Hester Lynch Piozzi
#46. You were born with love and hope. Why do you feel that you have no power to win in life?
Debasish Mridha
#47. The New Testament never uses the expression 'help' of the grace of God in the soul. We have absolutely no power - God is not to help us, because we are weak: no, He is to give His life and His power in us as entirely impotent. He that discerns this aright will learn to live by faith alone.
Andrew Murray
#48. There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we sue.
Louisa Lawson
#49. And suddenly that we were laughing out loud, laughing as if there were no power left in us save laughter.
Ayn Rand
#50. Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
Samuel Johnson
#51. I must accept responsibility even though I had no power as foreign minister because it was a dictator state.
Joachim Von Ribbentrop
#52. No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.
Herman Melville
#53. there can be no power in a square
Black Elk
#54. If a father does not altogether embrace a life of uncompromised sacrifice as the core of all principles by which he nurtures his children, he is a father by birth only and no power on earth can ever or will ever make that sufficient.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#55. Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.
Marcus Aurelius
#56. Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever.
Let us get rid of the idea of power from law altogether. Call law tabulation of facts, expression of facts, or what you will; anything rather than suppose that it either explains or compels.
Florence Nightingale
#57. There is one principle which is eternal; it is the duty of all men to protect their lives and the lives of the household, whenever necessity requires, and no power has a right to forbid it, should the last extreme arrive ...
Sam Smith
#58. Don't give people god's power. Yeah, they have opinions and stuff, but they ain't got no power to change your world unless you give it to 'em. Keep the power you got. You'll need it. I promise.
Daniel Black
#59. It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
Albert J. Nock
#60. I love you," she said wretchedly. "And if I were well, no power on earth could keep me away from you. If I were well, I would take you to my bed, and I would show you as much passion as any woman could.
Lisa Kleypas
#61. Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.
Frederick Douglass
#62. In a religion where logic alone rules, there is no power.
Calvin Miller
#64. No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves
Heber J. Grant
#65. I was so sure it would happen. That the past was an abused record with no choice but to repeat itself at the crack and no power on earth could lift the arm that held the needle.
Toni Morrison
#66. He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet's intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.
Richard Matheson
#68. You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.
David Lloyd-Jones
#69. Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.
Maria Edgeworth
#70. Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.
Swami Vivekananda
#71. There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#72. No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?
Daniel Webster
#73. Laws decide wich forms of oppression are allowed, Lord. And because of that, those laws are servants to those in power, for whom oppression is given as a right over those who have little or no power.
Steven Erikson
#74. Through our intentions, a place no power can influence, we have the power to oppose.
Bryant McGill
#75. Your opponents would love you to believe that it's hopeless, that you have no power, that there's no reason to act, that you can't win. Hope is a gift you don't have to surrender, a power you don't have to throw away.
Rebecca Solnit
#76. Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.
John Frederick Boyes
#77. It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#78. The negative feelings of anger, bitterness, guilt, regret, resentment, and sadness represent a failure of a person to accept that the past is an event that holds no power over the present. The thought that the future will bring salvation is an illusion. We must exist in the present.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#79. There is no bounty to be showed to such
As have real goodness: Bounty is
A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act
Can take effect on them that have no power
Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
Ben Jonson
#80. Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.
William Shakespeare
#81. Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.
Oprah Winfrey
#82. Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#83. I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters.
Peter S. Beagle
#84. The relevant measures are not ease and difficulty. The relevant measures are readiness and unreadiness. If the time isn't right for a new idea, no power on earth can make it catch on, but if the time is right, it will sweep the world like wildfire.
Daniel Quinn
#86. I don't care what problem you face; it has no power to defeat the cross of Christ.
Jay E. Adams
#87. When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world.
Frederick Douglass
#88. Sin has no power to break God's faithfulness to God's own original intentions for us; we are still in God's eyes at least the creatures God created us to be.
Kathryn Tanner
#89. No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.
Ammianus Marcellinus
#91. A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.
John Bartholomew Gough
#92. The have influence, but no power."
"In my experience, influence is power.
Orson Scott Card
#93. If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order to stimulate business, then no power on earth, no gimmick, device, trick or even indexation can prevent its economic consequences.
Henry Hazlitt
#94. The power of unconditional love. I mean, there is no power on
earth like unconditional love.
Warren Buffett
#95. Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.
Adyashanti
#96. It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
Seneca The Younger
#97. A person can escape an ingrained pattern of mental incapacity or 'non compos mentis' ("no power of the mind") by reading, writing, thinking, and studying their environment for telling external determinates that will shape a journey of the mind, body, and soul.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#99. Take a leap of faith and see that these troubled waters have no power over you unless you give it to them, and even then they lie.
Ted Dekker
#100. No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.
Manmohan Singh
