Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Castaneda

For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

Carlos Castaneda

The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.

Carl Bernstein

The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!

C. S. Lewis

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

We have new platforms, new process technology and new products. It's a very powerful one-two-three.

Carl Jung

I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, onesided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control.

Carl Jung

All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.

Carl Jung

One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd.

Abraham A. Ribicoff

Nothing is as sad as seeing a person who used to have power have none.

We're talking about powerful mafias. They're powerful, they're rich and they're ruthless.

James Black

We've been concentrating on the power play. Right now, we have the right power-play combination.

Billy Burke

We are so reliant on power and technology for everything.

The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject.

Brian Rolston

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

Tony Fadell

I learned the power of 'no.' No is really important. Entrepreneurs are told to say 'yes, yes, more, more.'

Jeff Ament

I'm a big fan of power trios where there's only three instruments.

I'm 34 years old. In most jobs, your early 30s to early 40s are your power years.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

In 'Fifty Shades,' seemingly, Christian has all the power and control - but actually, Anastasia does.

James Farmer

in-flight collision with an unmarked static power line.

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.

There's not going to be power here for another week or so. We've got to get them out of here.

Ed Begley, Jr.

When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.

Ashley Judd

I think that [Obama] is a powerful leader. I think he’s a brilliant man. I think that he has an incredible devotion to our constitution, and that he is now able to flower more as the president I knew he could be.

Ashley Greene

I think that music is a very, very powerful thing, especially when you have a movement like this [CBGB club] to shed new light on music and the power of it.

This is the most powerful movie I've ever seen in my life,

Dr. John

Powerful people never educate powerless people in what they need that they can use to take the power away from powerful people; it's too much to expect. If I was in power, I would not educate people in how to take my powers away.

Dorothy Height

I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and the poor.

Dorothy Day

We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

It is as dangerous for people unaccustomed to handling words and unacquainted with their technique to tinker about with these heavily-charged nuclei of emotional power as it would be for me to burst into a laboratory and play about with a powerful electromagnet or other machine highly charged with electrical force.

Don Richardson

One, gains an unmistakable impression that the Sky- God wanted to communicate with people of various folk religions all the time, but for His own mysterious reasons maintained a policy of restraint until the arrival of Yahweh's testimony! This is surely a powerful exta-biblical evidence for the authenticity of the Bible as revelation from the one true and universal God!

Dwayne McDuffie

You don’t feel as real if you don’t see yourself reflected in the media […] There’s something very powerful about seeing yourself represented.