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

Sara Sheridan

Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is the best job possible. I work hard, but I earn more than the national average wage while I play with my imagination, and for me, that's a dream.

Peter Greene

Lowe's was maybe a bit of a letdown this morning, and the other retailers and some of the homebuilding stocks are down. The Dow transportation average is also weak today, despite UAL's gains. There's really no new news today to push us too much in either direction. We've had a great run recently and a minor decline isn't so bad.

Lisa Murkowski

Last year, the Ninth Circuit had a caseload nearly 60 percent larger than the next largest circuit, ... This causes delays in a circuit where the average disposition time is now five months longer than the national average.

Catherine Young

Last year she was an average to an above-average setter. This year her setting has tremendously improved.

Antonio Villaraigosa

Many of these jobs are quality, middle-class jobs, ... The film industry is pivotal to the city's economy. ... In fact, the average scripted features -- television and commercial productions -- have a direct production-related economic impact of $150,000 to $250,000 each day they're in production.

Marilyn Mackes

Seven of the top-10 majors with the highest starting salary offers saw increases in their offers over last year. Engineering remains strong, and another high point comes for economics/finance graduates, who saw a spectacular 11-percent increase to their average starting salary offers.

William Fields

Serving small customers on a long-term basis doesn't provide enough of a margin. It might be a different equation for a company spending 10 times or more than your average retail customer.

Matthew Brown

Security and compliance requirements should boost IT spending by financial services firms, while resurgent demand for networking technologies should give the telecoms sector a shot in the arm. Unemployment has hit new lows. Two years ago, 13% of IT contractors went more than 90 days on average between contracts; now only 3% experience this level of uncertainty and difficulty in finding work.

Don Young

So far, the prices are still pretty decent. Our bean yields are down 30 percent, but our corn just seems to be up to average this year.

Paul Dillon

Now we have good, strong data to say to alcohol companies that we need to get rid of milk drinks and that vodka drinks look risky.

John Beckman

NYU is a safe environment in one of the safest neighborhoods in the safest large city in the country. The university has been taking a more vigorous approach toward alcohol and substance abuse.

Eddie Van Halen

Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.

David Niven

Champagne offers a minimum of alcohol and a maximum of companionship.

Michele Compton

On our end, we see a lot of the failures when parents do not come forward and really set out those parameters for their children. Know where they are, know what they're doing. There are just a multitude of disasters awaiting their child if they look away and do not set clear guidelines about alcohol use.

David Gill

Sgt. Vick was an honorable man, but heroes are people and people make mistakes. Sgt. Vick had a lapse of judgment to allow himself to get to a .20 blood alcohol level.

John Halpern

If they are faithful to the church, they don't ingest any illicit substances ever, ... They may have taken peyote in a religious context hundreds or thousands of times, and have never abused alcohol or cocaine. It's a distinctly pure population.

John W. Gardner

If they want students to do anything, like reading a newspaper, drinking less alcohol or visiting the library, they need to introduce them to it early.

Donna Karan

You know the thing I love about these oils? There are four of them and you can play with them, you can mix them, you can put them in your bath, ... And it's not perfume - there's no alcohol - so it's the nature of who you are in your soul so it really connects on a very, very deep level. It's like, you put it in your bag and let your handbag smell like it, it's that kind of thing. It's pure oil, pure essence, so it's never harsh. It never has that cut.