Famous Quotes & Sayings

Quentin Bryce

I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?

Quintilian

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

R. A. Salvatore

Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it. Those most powerful in Menzoberranzan spend their days watching over their shoulders, defending against the daggers that would find their backs. Their deaths usually come from the front." -Drizzt Do'Urden

Pliny the Elder

In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.

Pliny the Elder

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

Pierce Brosnan

Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together we can prevail on the Navy to put commonsense safeguards in place, like requiring its ships to avoid the most sensitive marine mammal habitats and to stop their training exercises during peak migrations.

Pico Iyer

I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind.

Philip Yancey

Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.

Pope Francis

The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life... These realities are increasingly under attack from powerful forces, which threaten to disfigure God's plan for creation.

Pope Francis

How powerful prayer is! May we never lose the courage to say: Lord, give us your peace.

Pope Benedict XVI

The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of global economic development. It's an acute symptom that is added to other more grave and already well-known ones, such as the continued imbalance between wealth and poverty, the scandal of hunger, the ecological emergency and the problem of unemployment, which has now become general. In this context a strategic re-launching of agriculture appears decisive.

Midge Decter

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

Mickey Hart

When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet.

Mickey Hart

A good groove releases adrenaline in your body. You feel uplifted, you feel centered, you feel calm, you feel powerful. You feel that energy. That's what good drumming is all about.

Nathaniel Branden

Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

Mother Jones

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

Vernon Howard

Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.

Veronica Roth

How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me -- the boy whose real name is powerful enough to keep us alive in a train car full of enemies?

Veronica Roth

Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.

Richard Bach

Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.

Robert Foster Bennett

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

Robert Frost

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Robert Frost

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Robert Bork

As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.

Rita Dove

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Rick Perlstein

It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

Rick Moody

There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.

Richard V. Allen

Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party.

Richard MacDonald

I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.

Rene Descartes

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

Rene Descartes

By 'God', I understand, a substance which is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful, and which created both myself and everything else [...] that exists. All these attributes are such that, the more carefully I concentrate on them, the less possible it seems that they could have originated from me alone. So, from what has been said it must be concluded that God necessarily exists

Thucydides

For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.

Thomas Huxley

A drop of water is as powerful as a thunder-bolt.