Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Hornby

But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in something over which we have no control; it is any wonder then, that we are reduced to creating ingenious but bizarre liturgies designed to give us the illusion that we are powerful after all, just as every other primitive community has done when faced with a deep and apparently impenetrable mystery?

Nick Hornby

Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.

Matt Drudge

I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.

Marvin J. Ashton

Satan is ever present, trying to destroy our glory and remove our crown. One of his most powerful tools is discouragement. Don't let your discouragement make Satan rejoice.

Nicholas Negroponte

Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money.

Nicholas Negroponte

The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.

Nawal El Saadawi

My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

Nawal El Saadawi

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

Natan Sharansky

Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.

Muhammad Ali

If the culprits are Muslim, they have twisted the teachings of Islam. Whoever performed, or is behind, the terrorist attacks in the United States of America does not represent Islam. God is not behind assassins.

Mitchell Baker

The web as a platform is the most powerful platform we have ever seen.

Mae West

The curve is more powerful than the sword.

Madonna Ciccone

It would be so helpful for the straight community to see men in powerful positions coming out and saying "I'm gay" so they don't have these preconceived notions that all gay men are smarmy idiots living on the street or whatever it is people think of gay men. I think it would be really helpful and productive.

Madonna Ciccone

Powerful women are a threat in any society which is why I am such a target.

Madonna Ciccone

Power is a great aphrodisiac and I am a very powerful person

Lydia Lunch

The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.

Lykke Li

Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it.

Lucretius

But if anyone were to conduct his life by reason He would find great riches in living a peaceful life And being contented; one is never short of a little But men want always to be powerful and famous So that their fortune rests on a solid foundation And they can spend a placid life in opulence. There isn't a hope of it; to attain great honours You have to struggle along a dangerous way And even when you reach the top there is envy Which can strike you down like lightning into Tartarus. For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level.

Lorne Michaels

Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules.

Liya Kebede

If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.

Michael Jackson

We can program ourselves to be the person we want to be, whatever the subject matter is, live in it by a mental physical program - a system of learning and doing. Studying all the greats in that field and becoming greater. I believe we are powerful, but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.

Michael Jackson

Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself unpredictable and deny other people any reasonable anticipation, to place them in total uncertainty by offering no scope for their capacity to predict."

Michael Jackson

People need love. It’s the most powerful emotion in the world.

Michael Jackson

I believe we are powerful but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.

Michael Dolan

Finding solitude in the concrete jungle is powerful and peaceful.

Melissa Leo

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

Michel de Montaigne

Opinion is a powerful party, bold, and without measure.

Michel de Montaigne

Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it; he sees knowledge and does not use it.

Michel de Montaigne

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

Michel de Montaigne

Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.

Michel de Montaigne

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

Michael Schudson

Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more than they are practicing precision microsurgery on the public consciousness.

Michael Scheuer

There is a direct correlation between what al Qaeda says and what it does. And the one thing that has been the gold standard of correlation has been bin Laden's 1995 - or was it 1996? - pledge that every attack is going to be more powerful than the last. If you go back to the first attack in Yemen in 1992 and chart it out, every attack has been more powerful, more destructive than the last one.