Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christine Ebersole

There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.

Meles Zenawi

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

James Howard Kunstler

Generations will soon come into their power feeling differently about themselves than we do now, and in their re-enchanted world, they will wonder about us and what we did to their world, and what we thought we were doing.

Alan Cohen

The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful.

Nicky Oppenheimer

We all need to become more customer-focused and recognize the power of marketing to sell more diamonds.

Woodrow Wilson

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Bob Ainsworth

On the back benches, you can have your say but no power to do anything.

To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.

Dax Shepard

I'm telling you, there is a lot of power in being unapologetic.

Hannah Arendt

Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but to act in concert. Power is never the property of an individual; it belongs to a group and remains in existence only so long as the group keeps together. When we say of somebody that he is 'in power' we actually refer to his being empowered by a certain number of people to act in their name. The moment the group, from which the power originated to begin with ... disappears, 'his power' also vanishes.

Steve Irwin

To me, the story is the power of volunteers,

Megan Fox

I don't need someone else's power. I'm obtaining my own.

I think with any movie, the more you know, it loses some of its power.

Rick Perry

We have the power to make things new again. To project American strength again, to get our economy going again.

We have the power to win back Congress. Yesterday proved it.

Robert Caro

You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected.

Ludwig von Mises

The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to the army within the political structure. Even in peacetime the army is supreme; it is the predominant factor in political life. The subjects must obey the government as soldiers must obey their superiors. Within a militarist community there is no freedom; there are only obedience and discipline.

Henry Giroux

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

Bono

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.

James Salter

Written pages are something that can be returned to, reclaimed, and when they are marvelous, never lose their power.

Abigail Adams

What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?

Aberjhani

At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.

Aaron Koblin

An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.

Aaron Klug

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

A. J. Jacobs

There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one

A. Philip Randolph

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

A. S. Byatt

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

Sarah Churchwell

In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline - on the course, at any rate. That discipline was the source of his power.

Victor Mature

I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.

Ibrahim Rugova

those in power (who) now refuse to relinquish even the tiniest part of that power.

Edward de Bono

The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Mack Brown

We'll let him get settled at linebacker, and if he wants to play some tailback, we will see if he can do both. He is just big, powerful and fast.