Unused Power Quotes

#1. Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance.

Frank Herbert

#2. Money is only unused power. The real purpose of wealth, after food, clothing and shelter, is philanthropy.

Leon Levy

#3. It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.

Garry Shandling

#4. We're all different. We all have our own quirks and flaws and dark secrets. All of us are fucked up on some level, whether or not we want to admit it to ourselves. And I like to believe that not every problem or issue that we deal with in our daily lives must be labelled with a fancy title.

J.A. Redmerski

#5. Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#6. You always were such a worrier. It was as if you thought your worrying was all that held the world together, and if you stopped for a split second the whole thing would just fly apart.

Paul Murray

#7. I turned back looking far away not making contact with anyone and I paced to my room with tears in my eyes, solitude in my heart and nuisance in my mind. I locked my door, rested in bed and slept while still desperate.

Shaikh Ashraf

#8. More lies. But what could you do? That's how you roll when you're a teenage magician!

Lev Grossman

#9. Power unused is power useless.

Gloria Feldt

#10. Portable designs have the power to transform unused public spaces into dynamic environments that build and invite communal experiences.

David Rockwell

#11. The duty of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition is to oppose.

Robert A. Heinlein

#12. My mind aches with a thousand stories. All variations with shredded threads of truth.

Truth Devour

#13. No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

James Cash Penney

#14. They look like caricatures of used-car dealers from Dallas. But they're real. And, sweet Jesus, there are a hell of a lot of them - still

Hunter S. Thompson

#15. 6 The first job God gave humans was to manage and take

Rick Warren

#16. I answer her with my silence, understanding the full power of it for the first time. Words are weapons. Weapons are powerful. So are unsaid words. So are unused weapons.

Emily Murdoch

#17. No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

John Selden

#18. My father for teaching me the grace of power unused, and mother for teaching me the joy of power used well.

Pierce Brown