Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iyanla Vanzant

What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man a whip and a chair? The lion has been taught to forget what it is.

Iyanla Vanzant

Once you get clear on who you are, what you do, and what you have been CALLED to do, you become powerful.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Isaac Asimov

The spell of power never quite releases its hold.

Irene Rosenfeld

Endorphins are a very powerful thing.

Immanuel Kant

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

Ellen Barkin

The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.

Jim Fowler

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

Jim Fowler

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

Jim Fowler

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.

Jennifer Hudson

Going jogging makes me feel powerful and free - like Rocky!

Jennifer Hudson

We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it's about work, relationships, parenting, or our health.

Jennifer Granholm

The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.

Jeff Cohen

The effect of Judaism's vigorous promotion of monotheism, and the dignity that this doctrine conferred on all humankind, as created in God's image, coupled with the discipline, warnth and security offered by the Jewish way of life, cannot be overestimated as a powerful catalyst for the undermining and eventual destruction of Graeco-Roman paganism.

Jeff Buckley

Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to the highest degree. Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality.

Jeff Bezos

Word of mouth is very powerful.

Jeff Bridges

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

Jean-Paul Sartre

All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?

Jean-Paul Sartre

When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought to force us into silence every word became as precious as a declaration of principle; because we were persecuted, each of our gestures carried the weight of a commitment.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

George Whitefield

O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you.

George Will

Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.

George Sand

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

George Saunders

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

Jeff Merkley

That's a question best put to Bernie Sanders himself, but I think that he will probably put forward ideas that are related to the corrupting role of Citizens United and Buckley versus Valeo court decisions and the need to restore a by-and-for-the-people republic envisioned in our Constitution instead of the of-, by- and for-the-most-powerful system that we have right now.

Jeff Olson

Showing up is essential. Showing up consistently is powerful. Showing up consistently with a positive outlook is even more powerful.

Jim Goad

My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.

Jerry Reed

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

Jeffrey Jones

Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.

Jeffrey Gitomer

The most killer questions in sales: "Mr. Jones, when I say (insert your product, your company, or anything you want an opinion about here) what one word comes to mind?" This is the most powerful question because it not only gives you top of mind awareness (the customer "hot button"), it also tells you their attitude towards it.

Jill McCorkle

Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful novel.