Power

Famous quotes containing the word power:

    “Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may will call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud—what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.”
    —Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)

    “My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.”
    —Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904)