Famous quotes containing the words power and/or records:
“When petty people get into power they consider themselves unexcelled in the world.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Although crowds gathered once if she but showed her face,
And even old men’s eyes grew dim, this hand alone,
Like some last courtier at a gypsy camping-place
Babbling of fallen majesty, records what’s gone.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)