Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dee Hock

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

Charles Dance

Power is always a corrupting influence. In this mythical time - let's call it medieval, feudal - people in power are dictatorial and don't want their positions of power to be threatened.

Pope Francis

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Sallie Krawcheck

Nothing bad happens when women are in positions of power.

Sally Quinn

Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.

Simon Sinek

There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us.

Howard Zinn

History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.

Eugene H. Peterson

Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.

Eoin Colfer

Of course. Opal is toying with our emotions for her own gratification. Nothing more. She wishes to place herself in a position of power, emotionally.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Debra Messing

As scary as change can be and as much as I might resist it, there's always some unkown gift that comes out of it. I really never thought you could begin again. You can.

Elena Satine

I just love scary stuff! I'm a huge horror buff.

Domhnall Gleeson

I find looking forward scary because you might die.

Catherine Tate

I was not a 'Doctor Who' fan. As a kid, I thought it was scary and for boys.

Rodney Brooks

Every technology, every science that tells us more about ourselves, is scary at the time.

Alexander Skarsgard

For me, creatively, I'd suffocate if I played the same thing, over and over again. I want challenges. I want to sit down with a director and be like, "I've never done this before, but it's going to be exciting. It's scary, but really thrilling, so let's do it!"

Eric Block

We don't know (about the house), ... That's the scary part.

Aaron McGruder

We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

Charles Taze Russell

The deliverance of the saints must take place some time before 1914.