Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Humphreys

Now they have a pretty strong portfolio. This is a powerful tech story for the company, and they need that.

Charles Spurgeon

Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion. I say you have deprived the gospel of its ablest auxiliary [its most powerful weapon] when you have set aside the Law. You have taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to Christ . . . They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law. Therefore the Law serves a most necessary purpose, and it must not be removed from its place.

Diane Lane

I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

Dennis Prager

The words 'I'm sorry' are so powerful that it's almost difficult to overstate

Dennis Prager

Complaining is never powerful because at the root of a complaint is powerlessness

Democritus

Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.

Deborah Tannen

any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life.

Dee Dee Myers

During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted.

Dee Dee Myers

Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.

Richard P. Feynman

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Tom Waits

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Dennis Potter

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

Dennis Haysbert

Being on set and seeing all that green screen, and how it activated my imagination, was amazing to me. I fell into that world very easily, and it was incredible to be a part of.

Denis Diderot

When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.

Edgar Allan Poe

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Elinor Wylie

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

David Lindsay

Imagination without study is the self-indulgence of the intellect.

August Wilson

I have a robust imagination and I have imagined for myself many things,

Ken Keyes

Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.

Mark Connolly

Leave our boundaries alone. Let us solve our own problems.

Tom Schlesinger

More than any of his predecessors, he has gone public with every issue under the sun. I'm not sure there's a right answer, but I think it's worth talking about in a public forum what ought to be boundaries of the Fed governors' comments.

Andy Serkis

I have a company in the U.K., a performance-capture studio. We're looking to push the boundaries of performance-capture technology in film and video games, but also in live theater, using real-time performance capture with actors onstage, and combining that with holographic imagery.

Fran Allen

So many of us were single and young, there were no boundaries between work and home. It was a tremendously productive period for all of us.

Sue Monk Kidd

Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of disenfranchisement, the social strata and boundaries we create and how to make them more permeable.

David Blaine

I hope people remember me as a guy who brought magic to the people. You know, pushed the boundaries of wonder.

Giles Foden

Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for whom all national boundaries are quaint curiosities.

William H. Seward

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?