Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emile M. Cioran

Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Emile M. Cioran

Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide.

Ellen Lupton

You have to be prepared to give creative work 150%. I hear a lot of young people talking about life/work balance, which I think is great when you’re in your 30s. If you’re in your 20s and already talking about that, I don’t think you will achieve your goals. If you really want to build a powerful career, and make an impact, then you have to be prepared to put in blood, sweat, and tears.

Ellen Goodman

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.

Eric S. Raymond

Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than most languages of today, twenty-five years later. Lisp freed ITS's hackers to think in unusual and creative ways. It was a major factor in their successes, and remains one of hackerdom's favorite languages.

Eric Schlosser

The federal government has more power to recall a defective stuffed animal who's little glass eye may fall off than to recall contaminated ground beef that could sicken or even kill hundreds if not thousands of people. The meat-packing industry is so powerful that it's managed to prevent the government from having this basic power of recalling a defective product.

Eric Alterman

By the accusation of liberal bias ... the institutions that conservatives revere - the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the powerful conservative groups themselves - will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence.

Epicurus

If the gods have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not all-powerful. If they are neither able nor willing, they are neither all-powerful or benevolent. If they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist?

Epicurus

God is all-powerful. God is perfectly good. Evil exists. If God exists, there would be no evil. Therefore God does not exist.

Epictetus

You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

Epictetus

Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.

Dax Shepard

I'm telling you, there is a lot of power in being unapologetic.

Hannah Arendt

Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but to act in concert. Power is never the property of an individual; it belongs to a group and remains in existence only so long as the group keeps together. When we say of somebody that he is 'in power' we actually refer to his being empowered by a certain number of people to act in their name. The moment the group, from which the power originated to begin with ... disappears, 'his power' also vanishes.

Steve Irwin

To me, the story is the power of volunteers,

Jason Calacanis

The balance of power shifts on the Internet to the individual. This is a two-way medium.

You three (county commissioners) sitting here have the power to end this today, but you won't,

It's similar to that kind of song, very pro-soldier, 'anti-enemy,' so to speak. Pretty powerful worlds.

That illustrates the power of the diversified model.

That is the case. Sign the power of attorney.

Joan Arc

It scares me, because if they can do this to Kamehameha Schools, what power do we have?

I want to get some power with solid defense.

It will reveal a lot about the power structure of New Orleans.

They are very big up front, possessing a lot of power and strength within their line. We must use our speed and quickness to our advantage.

Michael O'Donoghue

They just have a feel about them. And you feel your way through them and you come out with something that's very powerful and mythic. And you don't quite know how you got there. I think this story has a lot of those elements.

Calvin Hill

It's been whoever's had the power at the time. ... That doesn't make sense.

It's in our power to save these lives.

It's frustrating to get 50 shots on goal, with just one power play, and not win the game.

James Howard Kunstler

Generations will soon come into their power feeling differently about themselves than we do now, and in their re-enchanted world, they will wonder about us and what we did to their world, and what we thought we were doing.

Alan Cohen

The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

Millard Fillmore

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

Nydia Velazquez

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

Nelson Mandela

Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.