Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

Marc Benioff

The real joy in life comes from giving. It comes from service. It comes from doing things for other people. That is what is so powerful about this. Nothing will make you happier than giving.

Marc Benioff

The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of these technologies unlocks an incredible opportunity to connect everything together in a new way and is dramatically transforming the way we live and work.

Kenny Marchant

Since September 11, 2001, the powerful coalition of nations, led by the United States, has seen many successes against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. It is imperative that we remain united and steadfast in the quest to defeat terrorism around the world.

Ken Mehlman

There's nothing more powerful than coming out and being who you are.

Ken Livingstone

When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.

Kelly Cutrone

B*tch: a reflection of people’s lack of creativity & inability to acknowledge & embrace a powerful woman; a woman who won’t comply.

Kelly Cutrone

Do your best and become as successful as you can because the more powerful you become, the smaller the other person gets, right? So it's like the bigger you are, the better you become, the less power other people have over you. The best thing to do is to always compete with yourself and not to compete with others.

Kelly Cutrone

Historically, most women who are powerful are seen as not being nice, even if they are.

Kathryn Lasky

Words, as you well know, can be powerful. - Digger

Kathy Ireland

So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.

Margaret Thatcher

If we are safe today, it is because America has stood with us. If we are to remain safe tomorrow, it will be because America remains powerful and self-confident. When, therefore, the Americans face difficulties, we need to say to them more clearly: We are with you.

Margaret Thatcher

How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.

Margaret Thatcher

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Margaret Thatcher

The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. The men in the Soviet Politburo do not have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns.

Margaret Thatcher

Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.

Margaret Thatcher

I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.

Margaret Thatcher

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Margaret Thatcher

You turn if you want to. The Lady's not for turning.

Margaret Thatcher

Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if the price and quality are right. The market is a more powerful and more reliable liberating force than government can ever be.

Margaret Thatcher

Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word.

Margaret Thatcher

I fight on. I fight to win.

Margaret Thatcher

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Margaret Cho

We must know who we are, so we can know what we want, so we don't end up wanting the wrong thing and get it and realize we don't want it, because by then it's too late. We are powerful enough that we can manifest anything into our lives. To use this power with great care and love is the secret to living a happy life.

Margaret Cho

When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted.

Margaret Atwood

I don't believe in a perfect world. I don't believe it's achievable, and I believe the people who try to achieve it usually end up turning it into something like Cambodia or something very similar because purity tests set in. Are you ideologically pure enough to be allowed to live? Well, it turns out that very few people are, so you end up with a big powerful struggle and a mass killing scene.

Elizabeth Taylor

When women stops blushing, she has lost the most powerful weapon of charm.

Elizabeth Janeway

Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.

Elizabeth Janeway

If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.

Elizabeth Janeway

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

Power should answer by action, not by speech.

Paul Wolfowitz

I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.