Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricky Gervais

Body language is more powerful than words.

Brent Weeks

..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.

Bret Easton Ellis

Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning,

Brandi Carlile

In life, I'm most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do.

Bob Dylan

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Billy Bragg

It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street - which Im also in favour of.

Billy Bragg

At some point in your life you have to engage with the fact that you are part of a society. Yeah the individual is the most important facet in society but unless every individual is the recipient of free health care, free education decent affordable housing and a proper pension then only the rich and powerful will be individuals and the rest of us will be exploited by them.

Brendan Sullivan

Tapes, as we all know, are very powerful evidence. Tapes that are altered are powerfully misleading.

Brendon Burchard

Even if you overcome a tremendous challenge and feel the personal victory, it's simply not powerful enough. It may activate your left brain, which says, 'I have achieved,' but it will not activate your more social right brain, which desperately desires to say, 'Look, Ma, I did it!

Brennan Manning

The Ragamuffin rabble are the unsung assembly of saved sinners who are little in their own sight, conscious of their brokenness and powerlessness before God, and who cast themselves on His mercy. Startled by the extravagant love of God, they do not require success, fame, wealth, or power to validate their worth. Their spirit transcends all distinctions between the powerful and powerless, educated and illiterate, billionaires and bag ladies, high-tech geeks and low-tech nerds, males and females, the circus and the sanctuary.

The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

The most powerful teaching moments are the ones where you screw up.

Brad Thor

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

Bonnie Raitt

Maybe the idea of me is more powerful than I perceive myself being.

Bobby Farrelly

I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys story.

Barbara Bush

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers and fooled, still there is left to the genuine works of all times a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence; and as if by a miracle, we see them rise at last out of the turmoil like a balloon that floats up out of the thick atmosphere of this globe into purer regions. Having once arrived there, it remains at rest, and no one can any longer draw it down again.

Arleigh Burke

For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command.

Bruce Lee

What Is, is more important than What Should Be.

Bruce Lee

The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.

Bruce Lee

Ultimately the greatest help is self-help.

Bruce Lee

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

Bruce Lee

Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.

Bruce Lee

Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.

Edwidge Danticat

Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this feeling of going through an earthquake. People really didn't have the vocabulary - before we had hurricanes. I'd talk with people and they'd say, "We have to name it; it has to have a name."

Edwidge Danticat

Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.

Edward Young

Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!

Edmund Burke

Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

Edmund Burke

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

Edmund Burke

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.