Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Meyer

The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.

Joyce Meyer

We've all got our own brand of problems. You can be pitiful or powerful. Take your pick.

Paul Krugman

Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups

Paul Davies

Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence "of its own accord." In his search for such a theory, he remarks: "No guiding principle would seem more powerful than the requirement that it should provide the universe with a way to come into being." Wheeler likened this 'self-causing' universe to a self-excited circuit in electronics.

Paul Davies

There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody has fine tuned nature's numbers to make the Universe. . . The impression of design is overwhelming.

Patrick Swayze

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

Patrick Dixon

All the most powerful speeches ever made point to a better future.

Patrick Dixon

Tribalism is the most powerful force in the world.

Frank Luntz

"Which side are you on" asks a question. That's one of the most powerful, persuasive ways to make a case, to say something, to advertise something or to communicate it. Don't make a statement. Ask a question.

Frank Luntz

The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty.

Frank Luntz

The ability to connect and communicate is one of the most powerful, and you cannot find anyone who has been truly successful in life that doesn't have that ability because you've got to motivate, and you've got to -frankly, you have to influence.

Frank Luntz

The most powerful call to action of anything that we've ever tested: Let's get to work.I didnt create that phrase. It came from Rick Scott, the current governor of Florida.

Frank Luntz

Believe in better is one of the most powerful words you can use in the business community.

Maggie Stiefvater

When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

Macy Gray

I want to be as famous as midnight. As powerful as a gun. As loved as a pizza.

Madame de Stael

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

Gustave Flaubert

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Gordon Parks

Think in terms of images and words. They can be mighty powerful when they are fitted together properly.

Gordon Parks

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

Gordon Parks

You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)

Gordon Ramsay

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey is a colour, and can be a very powerful and pleasing colour.... A grey clouded sky is indeed a canopy between us and the sun; so is a green tree, if it comes to that. But the grey umbrellas differ as much as the green in their style and shape, in their tint and tilt. One day may be grey like steel, and another grey like dove’s plumage. One may seem grey like the deathly frost, and another grey like the smoke of substantial kitchens.

Louis Pasteur

What did you do today to receive your instruction?

Lord Chesterfield

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

John Cleese

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

John Brown

Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends...every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.

John Brown

I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or liberty] by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone.

John Bradshaw

Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.

M. Russell Ballard

Because we love the Lord, we should be spiritually sensitive to moments when the powerful and important truths of the gospel can be shared with others. Perhaps more importantly, however, we should seek at all times to purify ourselves and to lead such worthy lives that the Light of Christ emanates from us in all that we say and do. Our day-to-day lives should stand as immutable witness of our faith in Christ.

Louise Brown

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.

John Boyd Orr

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.

Matt Taibbi

The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.