Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al Ries

What should a brand leader advertise?Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

Daniel Radcliffe

Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.

Douglas Horton

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Davy Jones

The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.

Davy Jones

Once you're in, you're in. It's like the Mafia. Once a Monkee, always a Monkee.

David Chase

When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

Piero Grasso

With this arrest, the Mafia has been beheaded.

James Carafano

You don't need to buy a $7 billion company to penetrate maritime security. The Mafia doesn't buy FedEx to smuggle.

Gerald Celente

The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort.

Fidel Castro

This mafia not only operates from Miami. It has set up an organization that operates from Mexico, using remote places for new routes.

Edward Gibbon

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

Dean Acheson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

Dana Gioia

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

Cardinal Richelieu

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire...

Edward Said

We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)

Edward Said

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

Daniel Pinkwater

If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.

Donald Rumsfeld

We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic.

John Oliver

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.