Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benito Mussolini

It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.

Benjamin Disraeli

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

Benjamin Disraeli

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Benjamin Disraeli

Man is more powerful than matter.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Benjamin Disraeli

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Benjamin Disraeli

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies ; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.

Benjamin Disraeli

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

Carl von Clausewitz

Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

Carl von Clausewitz

Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare.

Carl von Clausewitz

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them.

Carl von Clausewitz

We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.

Cameron Russell

Image is powerful. But image is also superficial.

C. S. Lewis

Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?

C. S. Lewis

It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking powerful associations, by offering the right stimuli to our nerves (in the right degree and the right order), and by the very beat and vowel-melody and length and brevity of your sentences, you must bring it about that we, we readers, not you, exclaim, 'how mysterious!' or 'loathsome' or whatever it is. Let me taste for myself, and you'll have no need to tell me how I should react.

Just like we need standards in software and hardware, we need standards in power utilization and power savings.

Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Gary Gaetti

He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power.

There are no reports of widespread power outages, no problems with heating and that sort of thing. So just stay off the roads and everything should be fine.

When they say all power boaters are rude, I just don't think that's true.

William P. Young

Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe & powerful.

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

Anton LaVey

How could you set yourself up as the most powerful institution on earth? You first find out what every man feels at least once a day, establish that as a sin, and set yourself up as the only institution capable of pardoning that sin.

Anton LaVey

Hair on a man's chest is thought to denote strength. The gorilla is the most powerful of bipeds and has hair on every place on his body except for his chest.

Darren Pang

He wasn't being relied upon to do the things that he always did. He wasn't on the power play. Sure, he was frustrated.

He was exceptional when he had to be. He made really big saves for us on some of their power plays.

He could be a monster. He's a powerful, powerful pup.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

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

He made some unbelievable saves. Especially on the power play.

I am the power of rulers, the statesmanship of the seekers of victory.

J. J. Johnson

He had the power to amend the survivor's trust. He had the power to appoint the descendant's trust.