Power Stars

Famous quotes containing the words power and/or stars:

    The British are a self-distrustful, diffident people, agreeing with alacrity that they are neither successful nor clever, and only modestly claiming that they have a keener sense of humour, more robust common sense, and greater staying power as a nation than all the rest of the world put together.
    —Quoted in Fourth Leaders from the Times (1950)

    Ere he was born, the stars of fate
    Plotted to make him rich and great:
    When from the womb the babe was loosed,
    The gate of gifts behind him closed.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)