Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zig Ziglar

You have to feed your mind daily with the good, clean, pure, powerful and positive.

Zach Braff

I find it hard to believe that so many people doubt the existence of God. I mean, seriously, I'm here, so is it such a stretch to imagine that another all-powerful being could exist somewhere in the universe?

Youssou N'Dour

If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.

William Hague

The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.

William Hague

The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.

William H. Macy

I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.

William Hazlitt

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

William Hazlitt

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.

William Hazlitt

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

William Hazlitt

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

William E. Gladstone

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

Wendell Willkie

What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy.

Wendell Berry

However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always found to be found in private life. We must learn to see that every problem that concerns us as conservationists always leads straight to the question of how we live. The world is being destroyed, no doubt about it, by the greed of the rich and powerful. It is also being destroyed by popular demand.

Wendell Berry

There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.

W. Somerset Maugham

Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.

W. Somerset Maugham

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

W. Somerset Maugham

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Vladimir Nabokov

There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest the so-called "powerful" novel - full of commonplace obscenities and torrents of dialog.

Yoko Ono

I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.

Yoko Ono

The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Singlemindedness is all-powerful.

Yann Martel

I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

Yann Martel

It's hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it's hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

Wyndham Lewis

The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.

Willie Stargell

I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.

William Peter Blatty

When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.

William Peter Blatty

The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.

William O. Douglas

Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.

William Penn

If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

William Penn

For we put the power in the people.

Yehudi Menuhin

Music is a therapy.It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient.

Yehuda Berg

It's our own small voice within that is our oppressor; it says we are not worthy and not powerful enough. Our limited beliefs are the real foes we need to fight and conquer.

Zig Ziglar

Most Americans honestly believe America is the most powerful nation on earth, but actualy the most powerful nation is imagi-nation.