Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mary Carillo

There is nothing more powerful than kindness.

Martin Gardner

[T]he more the public is confused, the easier it falls prey to doctrines of pseudo-science which may at some future date recieve the backing of politically powerful groups [...]a renaissance of German quasi-science paralleled the rise of Hitler.

Marquis de Sade

Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

Mark McGwire

The mind is a powerful thing and most people don't use it properly.

Mark McKinnon

It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down.

Mario Puzo

He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful. It was this knowledge that prevented the Don from losing the humility all his friends admired in him.

Noam Chomsky

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

Noam Chomsky

Obama's primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

Niklas Zennstrom

With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

Niklas Zennstrom

You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls.

Nikki Reed

I think the greatest lesson I have just recently learned is how powerful the mind is, informing our decision making unknowingly.

Nicki Minaj

We all love to see women on top, and as the record shows, this next powerful woman is always on top. She does it all by living for love.

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.

John Green

All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they are made out of language and are made out of words is extremely powerful to me. It becomes transformative for me. Different people have different ways of trying to make stories using language.

John Green

But the fascinating and unbelievable-but-true thing about Dr. Jefferson Jeffersonis that he was not a doctor of any kind. He was just an orange juice salesman named Jefferson Jefferson. When he became rich and powerful, he went to court, made "Jefferson" his middle name, and then changed his first name to "Dr." Capital D. Lowercase r. Period.

John Green

As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

John Green

They belong to their readers now, which is a great thing–because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers than they could ever be in my hands.

Pat Williams

The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never.

Pat Summitt

Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.

P. G. Wodehouse

In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery. They are those fellows who got mixed up with Catsmeat when he was meaning well.

Ovid

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Paul Bloom

Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.

Mary Hart

Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away.

Mary J. Blige

Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.