Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane von Furstenberg

I'm all about empowering women. And by lining them up against the wall and weighing them, surely you are making them feel more like meat than ever - even if it's little meat, if you know what I mean.

Dallas Willard

All of the spiritualities that are now clamoring for attention, from explicit Satanism to what we hear on Oprah, are concerned with the two issues of identity and empowerment. Who am I? How can I have the power to live? Those are the questions everyone has to deal with. If we don't come to terms with these, we lapse into some form of human decadence and failure.

Curtis Sliwa

If you do nothing, that just empowers the gangs.

David Limbaugh

The hastily crafted [stimulus] bill, with its corrupt funding of ACORN and other favors, is a disgracefully irresponsible effort to expand the public sector, diminish the private sector, empower the autocrats, and further divest us of our individual liberties - all at the expense of present and future generations.

This time of year, we look forward to financially empowering one of our member non-profits.

People are used to getting a lot of information quickly, and they're used to being quite empowered as consumers, and they go to governments expecting a similar treatment; they want to find data and they want to influence events quickly, and yet they come into this brick wall.

Bryce Dallas Howard

It is an honor for me to take part in Canon's Project Imagin8ion, partnering with a brand that is empowering young filmmakers and is at the forefront of technology.

Evan Rachel Wood

Authentic and free. The Gucci guilty woman is about living in the moment. She's a modern woman, someone who really owns herself and her sensuality. It's supposed to be a very empowering and sensual fragrance.

Kirsten Gillibrand

One of the things that Claire [ McCaskill] and I are trying to do is put systems on campus in place so that a survivor knows who to talk to - that there's somebody who's an expert on their campus that will know all their options from day one and really empower them to make their own decision about what they want to do.

Paul Bettany

I don't want to infantilize the actor; I want to empower the actor. Actors can be many things, but all of the really good ones are really great storytellers, and I'm interested in that. If you're not interested in that as a director then you better be Stanley Kurbrick.

Martha Beck

The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.

Preneet Kaur

Politics is a potent way to empower women.

Gillian Anderson

Right now the topic of female empowerment is at the forefront of conversation and it's important we take advantage of the trend while there is added pressure to adjust long-standing beliefs, prejudices, and cultural discrimination.

Hailee Steinfeld

I really do feel like I'm in a generation where women are empowering and supporting each other. It's so amazing to feel a part of that.

Greg Mortenson

If you really want to change a culture... empower women.

Myles Munroe

Leadership is not about control but service. Its not about power but empowerment

Kenny Marchant

Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.

Bryan Cranston

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

Jane Pauley

The courage to try something new makes me proud.

An empowered hero teaches kids the value of goodness and hope in the world.

Andie MacDowell

As a proud spokesperson for L'Oreal Paris, I have communicated the 'Because You're Worth It' message many times, and know firsthand how empowering it is to say and how empowering it feels.

They give us that autonomy. They're very big into giving and empowering people.

Chris Hemsworth

Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering.

Greta Garbo

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

Jakob Nielsen

The web is the ultimate customer-empowering environment. He or she who clicks the mouse gets to decide everything. It is so easy to go elsewhere; all the competitors in the world are but a mouseclick away.

Evgeny Morozov

The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.

Gary Zukav

With each choice that you make to align yourself with the energy of your soul, you empower yourself. Authentic power is built up step by step, choice by choice. It cannot be meditated or prayed into being. It must be earned.

Gary Zukav

Truth is that which does not contaminate you, but empowers you. Therefore, there are degrees of truth, but, generically, truth is that which can do no harm. It cannot harm.

Gary Zukav

When our actions create discord in another person, we, ourselves, in this lifetime or another, will feel that discord. Likewise, if our actions create harmony and empowerment in another, we also come to feel that harmony and empowerment.

Jeff Olson

Your habits operate at the unconscious level; you are not normally aware of them. It's only by bringing a habit into your conscious awareness that you can observe what it's doing, how it empowers and serves you or doesn't.

Ian Somerhalder

If we take our youth seriously, provide tools to strengthen their natural prowess, and empower them to make the changes they want to see in the world, then this planet and her creatures have the chance to heal and flourish.

Eve Ensler

The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.

Eve Ensler

stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!