Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Paul Sartre

Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought to force us into silence every word became as precious as a declaration of principle; because we were persecuted, each of our gestures carried the weight of a commitment.

George Will

Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.

Jeff Merkley

That's a question best put to Bernie Sanders himself, but I think that he will probably put forward ideas that are related to the corrupting role of Citizens United and Buckley versus Valeo court decisions and the need to restore a by-and-for-the-people republic envisioned in our Constitution instead of the of-, by- and for-the-most-powerful system that we have right now.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I am not a human being, I am dynamite.

George Bernard Shaw

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Gena Showalter

How does fear become so powerful? We can’t see it. We can’t touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control us. Sigh. I hate feeling afraid, and I hate, hate, HATE feeling out of control.

Galen Rowell

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it's kind of hard to deny that they had a good time.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.

Bertrand Russell

Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.

Jayne Ann Krentz

Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of relationships, the one between a woman and a man. They are legends told to women by other women, and they are as powerful and as endlessly fascinating to women as the legends that lie at the heart of all the other genres.

Ernst Mach

Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.

Howard Zinn

The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful in the new nation--all this was already settled in the colonies by the time of the Revolution. With the English out of the way, it could now be put on paper, solidified, regularized, made legitimate by the Constitution of the United States.

James Bovard

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

Gerald R. Ford

We are bound together by the most powerful of all ties, our fervent love for freedom and independence, which knows no homeland but the human heart.

J. William Fulbright

Education is a slow moving but powerful force

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we expect to receive.

Ivan Pavlov

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

Gary Gaetti

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

Sandra Tsing Loh

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

William Wordsworth

A power is passing from the earth.

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.

Santiago Durango

I don't have a driving desire to be all encompassing and world powerful or anything.

Virginia Woolf

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever

Valerie Steele

Power dressing is combat gear for the trip to the top.

Van Jones

To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to join forces. But all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration. The Challenging White Supremacy Workshop is the most powerful tool that I have seen for removing the barriers to true partnerships between people of color and white folks. If the CWS trainings were mandatory for all white activists, the progressive movement in the United States would be unstoppable.

Ursula K. Le Guin

As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

Ronnie Montrose

I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

Robin Morgan

Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other ...

Rudyard Kipling

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.