Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harold MacMillan

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Gwen Ifill

History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.

Greg Walden

Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.

Greg Walden

Since 2000, we've seen base power rates rise by 50%.

Gregory Bateson

But the myth of power is, of course, a very powerful myth, and probably most people in this world more or less believe in it. It is a myth, which, if everybody believes in it, becomes to that extent self-validating. But it is still epistemological lunacy and leads inevitably to various sorts of disaster.

Grant Gustin

I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that sense. My love for music has always been connected to the stories told through music, which is why I was drawn to theater and why I think 'Glee' is so powerful.

I'll be disappointed if we don't keep power,

If (Picazo) wrestles like he is capable, he can win a lot of matches. He is a big and powerful guy.

Jay Johnson

He's strong and quick and a very powerful runner.

I don't know if we have the power to do that.

Ingmar Bergman

I know that I shall have lost to the jungle if I take a weak moral standpoint or relax my mental punctiliousness. I have therefore come to a certain belief which is based on three powerful effective commandments: THOU SHALT BE ENTERTAINING AT ALL TIMES. THOU SHALT OBEY THY ARTISTIC CONSCIENCE AT ALL TIMES. THOU SHALT MAKE EACH FILM AS IF IT WERE THY LAST.

Jack Kornfield

With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.

Jack Canfield

Almost everything we'll ever do in life that is really powerful, that really produces a result in our lives, that quantum-leaps us to a new level . . . requires us to do something uncomfortable. It takes risks to achieve. It's often scary. It requires something you didn't know before or a skill you didn't have before. But in the end, it's worth it. As former Congressman Ed Forman says, 'Winners are those people who make a habit of doing things losers are uncomfortable doing.' Make today your day to start that uncomfortable new habit.

J. J. Abrams

There's something about looking at Super 8 films that is so evocative. You could argue it's the resolution of the film somehow because they aren't crystal clear and perfect,so there is a kind of gauzy layer between you and what you see. You could argue it's the silence of them. You could say it's the sound of the projector that creates a moodiness. But there's something about looking at analog movies that's infinitely more powerful than digital.

J. G. Ballard

It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.

J. G. Ballard

The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*.

Petra Nemcova

It was so powerful I couldn't get up. I couldn't get out of it,

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

I want to get some power with solid defense.

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.

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

Sara Blakely

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

Lois Wyse

Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.

Lois Wyse

Nothing is more stylish than power.

Mao Zedong

All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are really powerful.

Mao Zedong

This army is powerful because all its members have a conscious discipline; they have come together and they fight not for the private interests of a few individuals or a narrow clique, but for the interests of the broad masses and of the whole nation. The sole purpose of this army is to stand firmly with the Chinese people and to serve them whole-heartedly.

Mao Zedong

Our national defense will be consolidated and no imperialist will be allowed to invade our territory again. Our People's armed forces must be maintained and developed with the brave and steeled People's Liberation Army as their foundation. We will have not only a powerful army but also a powerful air force and a powerful navy.

Mao Zedong

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Lysander Spooner

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.

Louisa May Alcott

Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.