Seat Of Power Quotes

#1. Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power.

T.F. Hodge

#2. The All is everywhere, and anywhere may become the seat of power. Any blade of grass may assume, in myth, the figure of the savior and conduct the questing wanderer into the sanctum sanctorum of his own heart.

Joseph Campbell

#3. If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

Barbara Tuchman

#4. The seat of power in the twenty-first century is information, not oil or geography.

Jeffery Deaver

#5. I will handle this better from my seat of power.

E.L. James

#6. The eyes might be the windows to the soul, but a man's hips were his seat of power.

Tiffany Reisz

#7. I can truly say I had rather be a Mount Vernon than to be attended at the Seat of Government by the Officers of State and the Representatives of every Power in Europe.

George Washington

#8. The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box.

Christine Pelosi

#9. It is a man's world at the top, at the bottom, and in between. Men are in the catbird seat as far as income, opportunity, status, and power are concerned. This is the way it always has been and, as far as men are concerned, it is the way it always should be.

Joyce Brothers

#10. Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.

Richard Hooker

#11. Philosophers have often held dispute
As to the seat of thought in man and brute
For that the power of thought attends the latter
My friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter,
And spite of dogmas current in all ages,
One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!)

Edgar Allan Poe

#12. More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.

Bill Hybels

#13. Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Margaret Thatcher

#15. All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells are the seat of Church power. But the Spirit dwells in the whole Church, and therefore the whole Church is the seat of Church power.

Charles Hodge

#16. When the Dutch ambassador tried to humiliate her by refusing her a seat, Nzinga had shown her power by ordering one of her advisers to all fours to make a human chair of her body. That was the kind of power I sought ...

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#17. When we throw ourselves off the power seat and allow Jesus to fill our soul, heart and mind - our whole life - with His leadership, the troubling, painful and fearful circumstances of our life lose their power over us.

Lynn Donovan

#18. The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it's over.

Ryan Holiday

#19. It occurred to me, while sitting on the cold white toilet seat pretending to pee in order to avoid Bob, that I much preferred having the power over the man and deciding when to cut the cord, over being powerless and on the receiving end of the silent fade-away.

Meredith Schorr

#20. Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.

Sally Quinn

#21. Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. You can have a good seat at the restaurant, but you still have to pay for the meal. Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.

Gene Simmons

#22. A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.

Joyce Brothers