Famous Quotes

"There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed."

Jackie Kennedy 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 Jackie Kennedy

• "Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?"

• "I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?"

• "There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all."

• "Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death."

• "You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it."