Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Hoffer

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Cherie Blair

Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.

Kathleen Blanco

kick us when we're down, to destroy hope when hope is all we have.

James Morgan

I think it's a joke, ... I thought this was a free country, and someone is telling me they are going to come destroy a member of my family.

Mike Lowell

He wanted to destroy the dugout after that first inning. But the way he threw, to be down one run after that inning, I'd take that.

Mike Lowell

He wanted to destroy the dugout after that first inning.

Adrian Moss

He used to destroy us the whole year.

Darlene McIntosh

He didn't hit her, but he destroyed everything she had. I don't know if she even realized it was abuse, because it wasn't physical. It was mental. People don't think of that as being abused.

Alex Estrada

He is very unselfish. At times he defers to his teammates, but I wish he had that killer instinct from start to finish where he is just going to destroy people.

Paul Nolte

Greenspan is not going to wake up in June of next year and say 'I should have really raised rates more aggressively.' His legacy of price stability is pretty secure so I don't think the last six months of his tenure will destroy it for him.

Stanley Williams

The only thing that I was doing was destroying my own kind,

Anne Hendricks

Kids love it. They get learning experiences out of it. They learn what having a job is. What responsibility is. How that math lesson you hate to do will come in handy.

Jerry Nelson

John Belushi always hated the puppets. He just hated them with a passion.

Tichina Arnold

I took the role of Rochelle in 'Everybody Hates Chris,' and that was it. I was going to play mother roles all the time. Once you do one mother role, it's always a trickle down effect.

Shania Twain

I was not naturally meant to be on stage. I hated being in the spotlight; I was scared.

Diddy Puff

Haters wanna stop my lute,they don't want me wearing Sean John, they want me wearing lawn suits.

William Story

Hate me an hour, and then turn roundAnd love me truly, just one minute.

William Story

Hate me an hour, and then turn round And love me truly, just one minute.

Judy Shepard

Hate language in the school hallways is huge. These students are too often the target of name-calling, violence and worse.

Clara Taylor

Hate is not a word we use in our home. I don't hate them. I just want justice done.

Jack Klugman

There are so many stories about injustices that I would like to do, especially about the harmfulness of smoking tobacco.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

Emile M. Cioran

It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: In truth it is itself the quintessence of injustice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

R. Kelly

Injustice anywhere is an injustice anywhere

Paul Claudel

The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

Johann Lamont

Social injustice is what puts Scotland at its greatest disadvantage, and restoring the 50p tax rate will start to fight that.

Bayard Rustin

Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

Shirin Ebadi

If you can't eliminate injustice, at least tell everyone about it.

Ben Williams

Just like we need standards in software and hardware, we need standards in power utilization and power savings.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Gary Gaetti

He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power.

Jean Charest

It could be a strong and powerful symbol of our relationship,

Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Laura Harper

I think it was a powerful move. It was very inspirational. To be able to sit and look out on the court, it was awesome.

Ken Ford

There are no reports of widespread power outages, no problems with heating and that sort of thing. So just stay off the roads and everything should be fine.

George Ward

When they say all power boaters are rude, I just don't think that's true.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

Wayne Dyer

There are no justified resentments.

John Henry Newman

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

Anurag Kashyap

There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream.

Vanessa Marcil

If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?

Louis Gossett, Jr.

The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep.

Hank Blalock

It is just part of Spring Training soreness. If this was during the season, I'd play through it.

Richelle Mead

What am I supposed to do with a wool coat? Especially here in Palm Springs?” “Sleep with it,” he suggested. “Think of me.

Truman Capote

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.

Truman Capote

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

Reinhold Niebuhr

I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.

William Zinsser

The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.

William S. Burroughs

No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.

William Maxwell

Sometimes she goes out to work as a practical nurse, and comes home and sits by the kitchen table soaking her feet in a pan of hot water and Epsom salts. When she gets into bed and the springs creak under her weight, she groans with the pleasure of lying stretched out on an object that understands her so well.

Mike Aronson

He was able to make what used to be his weaknesses into his strengths.

Richelle Mead

We all have moments of weakness. It’s how we recover from them that really counts.

Rick Riordan

We’ve all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I’m tragically funny and good-looking.

Woody Hayes

A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.

Woody Allen

Of all human weakness obsession is the most dangerous. And the silliest.

Sara Blakely

The smartest thing I ever did was to hire my weakness.

Robinson Jeffers

Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

Salma Hayek

Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.

Ronald Reagan

We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.

Frank DeSalvo

We're not worried about what they do or where they do it. We'll try it wherever they want.

Tenzin Gyatso

There is an old Tibetan saying: wherever you feel at home, you are at home. If your surroundings are pleasant, you are at home.

Daunte Culpepper

I'd like to think I'd have made it wherever I went in the draft.

Willie Nelson

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.

Zig Ziglar

Wherever you are there you are!

Jeanette Winterson

Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

Bill Walker

Wherever she was needed, Dee was there to help.

Tyler Ebell

Wherever our game's going to be played, we have to go out there and play. And it's going to be on ESPN, so that's going to be nice.

Mark Buchanan

All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

Livy

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

Jane Austen

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

Orson Scott Card

To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.

Alphonsus Liguori

As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him.

John Tillotson

Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.