Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.

William J. Clinton

What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an inter-dependent world that is not yet an integrated global community.

William J. Clinton

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.

Sarah Palin

We have trade missions back and forth. We - we do - it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where - where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to - to our state

Richard M. Nixon

The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.

Rob Bell

Two of the most powerful words you can hear someone say are ‘me too.’

Trevor Noah

In my world, a woman was the most powerful thing that I knew. Still is. A woman made the money in my house; a woman made my food. A woman beat my ass when I wasn't a good kid. Women were behind a lot of what spurred South Africa toward democracy.

Tori Amos

I've worked with many powerful men in the music industry.

Robert Ludlum

Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning

Richard Paul Evans

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Whitley Strieber

I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

Willa Cather

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

Marcel Proust

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

John Adams

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

Luc de Clapiers

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

James Cook

The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.

Emile M. Cioran

At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.

Emile M. Cioran

Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.

Rick Warren

Never confuse activity with productivity.

Neale Donald Walsch

There can be only one purpose for relationships-and for all of life: to be and to decide Who You Really Are.

Neale Donald Walsch

All things lead us to our innermost truth. That is their purpose. That is the purpose of Life itself. Life is truth, revealing Itself to Itself.

Neale Donald Walsch

I tell you this: The purpose of life is not to please God. The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are.

Neale Donald Walsch

There is a divine purpose behind everything - and therefore a divine presence in everything.

Jonathan Stroud

Her clarity gave her purpose and her purpose gave her clarity.

John C. Maxwell

We don't grow on accident, we grow on purpose.

Jojo Moyes

We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.