Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harper Lee

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

Harper Lee

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

Harper Lee

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Gregory Corso

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

Greil Marcus

as I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K."-a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary words somehow stripped of all claptrap and set down in the city streets-I AM AN ANTICHRIST-Remain as powerful as anything I know. Listening to the record today-listening to the way Johnny Rotten tears at his lines, and then hurls the pieces at the world; recalling the all-consuming smile he produced as he sang-my back stiffens; I pull away even as my scalp begins to sweat.

Gregory David Roberts

Powerful people have no regrets.

Hope Solo

My entire purpose is trying to be the best in the game, and if that exudes beauty too, that's pretty powerful.

Ian Somerhalder

More than ever, it's very apparent that we are strapped for natural resources. We configure and reconfigure to try and find a way to maintain natural assets, when, ultimately, we are overlooking the most abundant, dynamic, and powerful resource we have available to us - our youth.

Ian Bremmer

There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states.

Iain Duncan Smith

There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

You three (county commissioners) sitting here have the power to end this today, but you won't,

Brian Rolston

Their power play is pretty deadly, one of the toughest to play against.

I'm greedy. I want to win the region. I don't want to have to rely on power points.

Jason Calacanis

The balance of power shifts on the Internet to the individual. This is a two-way medium.

That illustrates the power of the diversified model.

That is the case. Sign the power of attorney.

Joan Arc

It scares me, because if they can do this to Kamehameha Schools, what power do we have?

Michael O'Donoghue

They just have a feel about them. And you feel your way through them and you come out with something that's very powerful and mythic. And you don't quite know how you got there. I think this story has a lot of those elements.

It's similar to that kind of song, very pro-soldier, 'anti-enemy,' so to speak. Pretty powerful worlds.

Sara Blakely

It's the power of the brand. We've never formally advertised.

It's actually proven to be much more powerful in people's minds.

Bruce Schneier

It's a great, powerful browser, and I don't need to look around for an alternative,

It reduced power slowly but then the power went, down, down, down.

It will reveal a lot about the power structure of New Orleans.

They are very big up front, possessing a lot of power and strength within their line. We must use our speed and quickness to our advantage.

I've got the powder on my doorstep, now what do I do with it?

It's frustrating to get 50 shots on goal, with just one power play, and not win the game.

Michael Azerrad

In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground music was angry and dissatisfied. But now, mainstream culture isn’t complacent, it’s stupid and angry; underground culture reacts by becoming smarter, more serene. That’s not wimpy—it’s powerful and productive.

Ray Bradbury

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Ramez Naam

Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology.

Ralph Merkle

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.

Ralph Nader

If you know what's going on and know how society can be improved and happiness advanced, you tend to focus on how to get things done that will help health, safety, opportunity, justice, accountability of powerful institutions to the people they are supposed to serve.

Ralph Nader

The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.