Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.

Marquis de Sade

Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

Mark McGwire

The mind is a powerful thing and most people don't use it properly.

Mark McKinnon

It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down.

Mario Puzo

He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful. It was this knowledge that prevented the Don from losing the humility all his friends admired in him.

Noam Chomsky

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

Noam Chomsky

Obama's primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

Niklas Zennstrom

With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

Niklas Zennstrom

You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls.

Nikki Reed

I think the greatest lesson I have just recently learned is how powerful the mind is, informing our decision making unknowingly.

Nicki Minaj

We all love to see women on top, and as the record shows, this next powerful woman is always on top. She does it all by living for love.

Nick Hornby

But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in something over which we have no control; it is any wonder then, that we are reduced to creating ingenious but bizarre liturgies designed to give us the illusion that we are powerful after all, just as every other primitive community has done when faced with a deep and apparently impenetrable mystery?

Nick Hornby

Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.

Matt Drudge

I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.

Marvin J. Ashton

Satan is ever present, trying to destroy our glory and remove our crown. One of his most powerful tools is discouragement. Don't let your discouragement make Satan rejoice.

Mark Twain

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

Nicholas Negroponte

Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money.

Nicholas Negroponte

The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.

Nawal El Saadawi

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

Natan Sharansky

Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.

Muhammad Ali

If the culprits are Muslim, they have twisted the teachings of Islam. Whoever performed, or is behind, the terrorist attacks in the United States of America does not represent Islam. God is not behind assassins.

Mitchell Baker

The web as a platform is the most powerful platform we have ever seen.

Mikhail Bulgakov

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.

Mikhail Bakunin

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

Mikhail Bakunin

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

Maria Bartiromo

Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Unarmed love is the most powerful force in all the world.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am not speaking of that force which is just emotional bosh. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish me, if you will; I do not deserve it, but I will accept it, so that the world will know I am right and you are wrong," then you wield a powerful and a just weapon. This man, your oppressor, is automatically morally defeated, and if he has any conscience, he is ashamed.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.