“Nothing external to you has any power over you.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson Related Quotes “A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.”– George Meredith “There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.”– Steven Wright “In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.”– Jeff Goodell