Famous Quotes & Sayings

Coretta Scott King

Love is such a powerful force. It's there for everyone to embrace-that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind. That is the kind of love that impels people to go into the community and try to change conditions for others, to take risks for what they believe in.

Confucius

Though Confucius served the Duke of Lu, a Chinese state, he made many enemies with the nobles of the land. His views antagonized the powerful nobles, who wanted the Duke to be a puppet in their hands. Confucius was exiled from the State of Lu for more than two decades. He lived in the countryside, spreading his teachings.

Daniel Suarez

A very small group of powerful people is deciding what's going to happen with your data, and they're using bots to help implement what they want to do. That has nothing to do with democracy. It's all about efficiency. And that's the really scary thing about it.

Daniel Webster

There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from anothe quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing.

Andrew Lansley

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.

Andre Malraux

In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been Roman to a degree. The United States is the first nation to become the most powerful in the world without having sought to be so. Its exceptional energy and organization have never been oriented toward conquest.

Ambrose Bierce

As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw; it is still unimpeachable. The judges' decisions based on it were sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value.

Ambrose Bierce

Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.

Anthony Horowitz

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

Kenny Tang

The move came as a surprise to the market. I believe that China wants to send a strong signal that it is serious in keeping economic growth in check.

Melissa Body

Adolescents are hard; it takes long term engagement and support. We just try to build a support system, or maybe just plant a seed. At the time they may not believe or understand what we are telling them but later it can click. Some end up back here, sure, but some don't.

Mark Ruffalo

The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it.

Mark French

The Oklahoma City player comes up and delivers a severe blow to Travis' face and to his head. He uses his hand area, the top hand, to knock out Travis. You can see a clear jabbing motion. The level of cuts on Travis' face lead me to believe the stick was part of the blow as well.

Richard Perle

After 9/11, there was an awakening. The administration has to believe that it's possible to wait too long to deal with a problem, the contours of which could have been seen easily before. Is it safe to do that again?

Peter Misek

After a string of unfortunate events for RIM, we believe the company has been boosted by the District Court's decision to elongate the final briefing timeline, while the Patent Office expedites its re-examination.

John Hawthorne

After all that you've said and all that you have done, the law is still in place and nothing has changed except many people have suffered. Do you really expect the world of man to believe that innocent people had to die so you could make your voice heard?

Doug Langhals

After everyone we lost from last year, I thought this would be a rebuilding year. But by the end of the year, I really believe we'll be competitive with just about anybody.

Darren Kimball

After burning $400 million of cash in 2005, we expect the company to use another $150 million in 2006, and we have no reason to believe that 2007 performance will be much better.

Billy Blanks

Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!

Albert Einstein

If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely to one principle: don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds. To him who is a discoverer in this field the products of his imagination appear so necessary and natural that he regards them, and would like to have them regarded by others, not as creations of thought but as given realities.

Albert Einstein

We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe...Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.

Albert Einstein

It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us the key to the understanding of nature ... In a certain sense, therefore, I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

Alia Shawkat

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has

Alexander Lowen

Contact with reality is not an all-or-nothing condition.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

Alexander McQueen

The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

Alexander Pope

Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.