Famous Quotes

"The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance."

E. B. White on Power

More quotes about Power

• "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

  Abraham Lincoln on Power

• "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

  Margaret Thatcher on Power

• "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

  Bruce Lee on Power

• "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Power

• "Character is power."

  Booker T. Washington on Power

More quotes by E. B. White

• "Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19."

• "The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance."

• "Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car."

• "The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it."

• "The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war."