Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Frances O'Grady

In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.

so power is one thing that's stable at this stage - we're not contemplating any change.

Ernest Holmes

A realization of the Presence of God is the most powerful healing agency known to the mind of man.

Erin Hunter

Truth is a powerful weapon ... We must be careful how we use it." (Quote by Spottedleaf, page 5)

Erin Hunter

You see, Firestar? I am even more powerful than Starclan, for I have changed the clans in the forest from four to two..."-The Darkest Hour, Page 227

Florence Scovel Shinn

The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before it.

Henry Mintzberg

Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition

Henry Miller

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

Henry Miller

There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our st idity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.

Henri Frederic Amiel

He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is . . . a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being-an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner-life is a slave of his surroundings as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

Catharine MacKinnon

Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.

Cat Stevens

There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

Cate Blanchett

I often have a few scents depending on if I'm playing a character. The character may be wearing a scent that perhaps I wouldn't wear. We've all got different moods and ways we want to express ourselves; scent is a very powerful way to let people in to your secret life.

Cassandra Clare

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. "It means that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.

Jason Calacanis

The balance of power shifts on the Internet to the individual. This is a two-way medium.

That illustrates the power of the diversified model.

That is the case. Sign the power of attorney.

You three (county commissioners) sitting here have the power to end this today, but you won't,

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

Bruce Schneier

It's a great, powerful browser, and I don't need to look around for an alternative,

Ed Orgeron

It's fantastic. It's unique, powerful and sleek, and it will represent the university in a first-class manner.

It seems we couldn't get anything going. In this league, if you can't get your power play going, you won't win games.

It was a lot more powerful than I expected.

Petra Nemcova

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

Joan Arc

It scares me, because if they can do this to Kamehameha Schools, what power do we have?

Calvin Hill

It's been whoever's had the power at the time. ... That doesn't make sense.

It's in our power to save these lives.

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

It's similar to that kind of song, very pro-soldier, 'anti-enemy,' so to speak. Pretty powerful worlds.

Every power play they got, they really bared down. They really got us.

Sara Blakely

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

Jaron Lanier

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.