Famous Quotes & Sayings

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!

The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science is universal, and is a powerful force in bringing the peoples of the world closer together.

David Hockney

I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.

David Hume

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

David Draiman

Everyone has a struggle in life, and the question is do you allow yourself to be overcome by it or do you master it with unified strength and power. This is exactly what the music was meant to do, to transend your normal world, to make you more than what you are, to make you set down your burden for a while. Feel powerful, feel invincible, feel indestructible; believe in something as opposed to believing in nothing; spread the sickness, infect the world.

Benazir Bhutto

In 1988, when democracy was restored, the military establishment was still very powerful. The extremist groups were still there. And when the aid and assistance to Pakistan was cut, we had to adopt harsh economic policies. So in a way, it showed that democracy doesn't pay, and the military was able to reassert itself.

Benazir Bhutto

Bhutto represents everything the fundamentalists hate - a powerful, highly-educated woman operating in a man's world, seemingly unafraid to voice her independent views and, indeed, seemingly unafraid of anything, including the very real possibility that one day someone might succeed in killing her because of who she is.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.

Barry Commoner

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.

Barry Commoner

Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it is very difficult to discover how it was done. By which weapon? In whose hand? Are we driving the ecosphere to destruction simply by our growing numbers? By our greedy accumulation of wealth? Or are the machines which we have built to gain this wealth-the magnificent technology that now feeds us out of neat packages, that clothes us in man-made fibers, that surrounds us with new chemical creations-at fault?

Barney Frank

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

August Strindberg

Some people have accused my tragedy of being too sad, as though one desired a merry tragedy. People clamor for Enjoyment as though Enjoyment consisted in being foolish. I find enjoyment in the powerful and terrible struggles of life; and the capability of experiencing something, of learning something, gives me pleasure.

Audre Lorde

Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression... Survival is learning to take our difference and make them strengths.

Audre Lorde

My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity.

Audre Lorde

We are powerful because we have survived

Audre Lorde

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.

Audre Lorde

Women are powerful and dangerous.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.

David Price

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

Diablo Cody

You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.

Denzel Washington

Writing is a weapon and it’s more powerful than a fist could ever be.

Denis Waitley

Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.

Denis Leary

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.