Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Paul

Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Let's get the power back to the people, ... not have the politicians go into a back room and slap each other on the back and smoke a stogie and come up with an agreement, smiling.

Michel Gauthier

Mr. Harper said several times that he did not want to centralize, that he wanted to respect the powers of the provinces.

John Humphreys

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

Thomas Fuller

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

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

Charles Spurgeon

If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all; and the moment I did join it, if I had found one, I should have spoiled it, for it would not have been a perfect church after I had become a member of it. Still, imperfect as it is, it is the dearest place on earthto us.

Edgar Allan Poe

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...

Eduardo Chillida

The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should have a good relationship with time and space.

Edvard Munch

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

Edvard Munch

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.

Ahmet Ertegun

I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn't have the other $20,000. I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.

William Shakespeare

The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.

Charles Spurgeon

Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us?

Randy Cross

One voice is the only way to go.

Charles Spurgeon

To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe

Charles Olson

The Canadian voice is still too rustic.

Denis Johnson

I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.

Debra Wilson

Voice is my instrument.

Edgar Allan Poe

I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal." And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable fell duskly upon our ears in the well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends.

Bartlett Sher

What's great about [Guettel] is his very distinct voice as a composer. And that distinct voice is something worth cherishing and expressing so we just didn't want to screw that up.

Elizabeth Edwards

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

Dirk Benedict

I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.