Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Henry Moody

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Carrie Fisher

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Carl Rogers

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

Carl Sagan

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

Carl Sagan

These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney.

Bill Bryson

So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.

Arnold Schoenberg

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

Aron Ralston

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

Charles Spurgeon

Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.

Alan Watts

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

Arthur C. Clarke

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.

C. S. Lewis

You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.

C. S. Lewis

If you have a religion it must be cosmic.

Dante Alighieri

I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

David Jeremiah

It is God’s omnipotence, His consuming holiness, and His right to judge that make Him worthy to be feared.

Mark Batterson

To the infinite, all finites are equal.

J. William Fulbright

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

Bette Davis

I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.

Bill Vaughan

Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

Bertrand Russell

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

Bertrand Russell

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.

Bertrand Russell

I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.

Bertrand Russell

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

William Shakespeare

Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves.

Charles Simmons

Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.