Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Blair Henry

Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.

Pema Chodron

There comes a time when the bubble of ego is popped and you can’t get the ground back for an extended period of time. Those times, when you absolutely cannot get it back together, are the most rich and powerful times in our lives.

Peter Senge

Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.

Peter Jackson

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

Pearl Cleage

I think all negotiations should take place at a round table and everybody should have to rotate counterclockwise once an hour so that even the perception of head of the table, or foot, are ritually obliterated.

Philip Pullman

Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.

Rachel Griffiths

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

Rabindranath Tagore

I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.

Queen Victoria

The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.

Puff Daddy

Do you know how powerful you are?

Maggie Stiefvater

When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

Macy Gray

I want to be as famous as midnight. As powerful as a gun. As loved as a pizza.

Madame de Stael

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

Gustave Flaubert

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Gordon Parks

Think in terms of images and words. They can be mighty powerful when they are fitted together properly.

Gordon Parks

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

Gordon Parks

You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)

Gordon Ramsay

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey is a colour, and can be a very powerful and pleasing colour.... A grey clouded sky is indeed a canopy between us and the sun; so is a green tree, if it comes to that. But the grey umbrellas differ as much as the green in their style and shape, in their tint and tilt. One day may be grey like steel, and another grey like dove’s plumage. One may seem grey like the deathly frost, and another grey like the smoke of substantial kitchens.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

John Dryden

Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

John Dryden

All empire is no more than power in trust.

John Dryden

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

John Marshall

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well

John Marshall

Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.

John Maynard Keynes

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.

John Maynard Keynes

The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.

John Lukacs

All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.

John Locke

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

John Lewis

I say from time to time that the vote is precious. It's almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.

John Leguizamo

I grew up with a lot of cats like that and they always were so surprising, magnetic, and electrifying. You can't be with them too long because they burn you out but the energy, the impulsivity, and the freedom connecting them to their animal energy is just so powerful to watch. It's dangerous to live like that but it's riveting to watch.

John Landgraf

It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy.