Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brendan Fraser

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

Carl von Clausewitz

Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

Bryant H. McGill

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

Al Franken

As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.

Charles Darwin

Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?

Demian Bichir

Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

Daniel Handler

I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.

Bret Easton Ellis

Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning,

Allen Wallace

A player makes a name for himself and then causes younger players to look and see what can be accomplished. The younger players start focusing on being like one of the older guys.

Brigham Young

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

Anselm of Canterbury

But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily,every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.

Peggy Noonan

Let's cause some senators distress.

Bill Selvey

Bubba causes a lot of heartache to right-handed pitchers in this park.

Tom Ellis

I feel like I'm giving back to society a little bit. There's a lot of causes out there, and 99% of them are for people. There is very little out there for the animals.

Florenz Ziegfeld

They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

Francis Bacon

To know truly is to know by causes.

Jean Cocteau

Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.

James Wolcott

Robert Pattinson is rebel cool incarnated -- the James Dean of the undead.

Rollo May

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

George Carlin

There was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself.

Henry David Thoreau

What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

H. Rap Brown

Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

Mao Zedong

It is right to rebel against reactionaries.

Martin Freeman

Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.