Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Ludlum

Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning

Sargent Shriver

Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.

Sarah MacLean

When you are soul-centered, you can focus your attention where and when you want to, easily, without distraction. You know to look for what you want to see and experience. You know that what you seek you shall find, and what you focus on in life will be more prominent in your awareness. You know your awareness is powerful and creative.

Sarah Kay

Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it....I personally know so many poets that work a 9 to 5 in a cubicle and come home and write poetry. Their poetry is just as powerful and moving as anything that I've ever written, if not more.

Santiago Durango

I don't have a driving desire to be all encompassing and world powerful or anything.

Sandy Carter

In just 200 tweets we can assess and identify 52 different personality traits of a customer. We ran an analysis over 500,000 people and we really nailed this. Think of providing this powerful insight to a retailer. We can see what they value, not just what they are buying. We have found a 40-45% increase in sales when you recommend upsales based on values instead of past buying behavior.

Sandy Berger

Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as an engine for quality. When students themselves are in charge of projects that they care about, peer pressure can become a powerful force for high standards.

Sander Levin

Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power.

It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.

Samuel Johnson

Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.

Samuel Johnson

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

Samuel Johnson

The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them; either to let new light in upon the mind, and open new scenes to the prospect, or to vary the dress and situation of common objects, so as to give them fresh grace and more powerful attractions, to spread such flowers over the regions through which the intellect has already made its progress, as may tempt it to return, and take a second view of things hastily passed over, or negligently regarded.

Sarah Polley

I think that the idea of family is a very powerful and influential and disjointed thing that will always captivate me.

Wallace Stevens

Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.

Virgil

You, Roman, remember to rule peoples with your power. -Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento

Virgil

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.

Vincent Piazza

A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.

Will Wright

The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.

Willa Cather

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

Walter Jon Williams

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

Walter Kirn

Love is a powerful painkiller.

Walter Lippmann

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

Walter Lippmann

If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may be ascertained - then the people may entrust all their power to anyone, and the power of the pretender and the usurper is then legitimate. It is not to be challenged since it came originally from the sovereign people.

Voltaire

Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

Voltaire

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

Voltaire

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

William Pitt

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

William Rehnquist

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

William Ralph Inge

But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.

William Butler Yeats

In mockery I have set A powerful emblem up, And sing it rhyme upon rhyme In mockery of a time Half dead at the top.

William Butler Yeats

If a powerful and benevolent spirit has shaped the destiny of this world, we can better discover that destiny from the words that have gathered up the heart's desire of the world, than from historical records, or from speculation, wherein the heart withers.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

Wilhelm Reich

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.