Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ada Lovelace

A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.

Robert Caro

You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected.

Ludwig von Mises

The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to the army within the political structure. Even in peacetime the army is supreme; it is the predominant factor in political life. The subjects must obey the government as soldiers must obey their superiors. Within a militarist community there is no freedom; there are only obedience and discipline.

Henry Giroux

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

Robert Kiyosaki

Good debt is a powerful tool, but bad debt can kill you.

We're waiting for cancellations and that kind of thing, and we're doing everything in our power to make this work.

Megan Fox

I don't need someone else's power. I'm obtaining my own.

I think with any movie, the more you know, it loses some of its power.

Henry Cloud

The power of being in the physical presence of another person delivers real benefits.

Elfriede Jelinek

When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not literature's side.

Alexander Hamilton

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

Diane Warren

I don't just do power ballads. I have a lot of up-tempo stuff, too - like 'Can't Fight the Moonlight.'

Debi Mazar

I've had high-powered publicists in my career, and I've had publicists when they've had no power. I've run the gamut.

Eckhard Pfeiffer

We've seen the power of the PC, and we've seen that it's unstoppable.

Ridley Scott

Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things.

Adnan Pachachi

We only had Kalashnikov rifles. Now we have more powerful weapons.

Daniel Tosh

It's not that hard to climb a pole. All you need are powerful thighs and an empty soul.

Dane Cook

I'm in a new club, by the way. And I don't know if you're first timers like I am, but I'm in the 'I Just Dropped My Cell Phone In My Own Piss' Club. Have you done that? Yeah, good times. I'm on the phone and I forget that I'm using shoulder technique. Urinals were taken so I went in to use the regular john. And as I'm standing there, mid-conversation, I'm like 'Are you serious?' and it just started to toboggan right down my powerful chest.

Damian Kulash

It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful.

Damian Kulash

If you have a lot of fans, you have a powerful soapbox, but you still have to have something to say when you're on that soapbox if you want to make a real difference.

Dallas Willard

The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

Dallas Willard

Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as wildly individualistic and unbearably bright.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I guess because twins have this mystique, and triplets - I think the normal sibling connection potentially can be very powerful, and there's this idea that it's even more powerful. It really is, not just someone like me, but another version of me.

Dave Heineman

I believe education is the great equalizer. Our children are our hope for the future, so we have an obligation to provide them with the tools to succeed. There is no more powerful tool than knowledge.

Dave McKean

Film gives me live actors, editing, music, sound, a huge and powerful toolbox to play with. If there is a problem for me, it is that film gives me too much. There is less room for the audience to add their side of the conversation.

Darren Johnson

Believing in who you are is a major part of a powerful combination for success.

Dave Eggers

There are many Saudi women doctors, and there are many wealthy and powerful and well-educated Saudi women who circumvent the restrictions put upon them, quietly or otherwise.

Dave Eggers

Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or academic books or nonfiction books is that you don't get to hear the person's voice; you don't get them as individuals. You get a few quotes and you hear them as sort of a case study: numbers, examples, anecdotes, maybe a paragraph here, and that's about it.

David Letterman

Former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is promoting her new book and she's going to appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Sarah and Oprah. On the one hand, a very powerful woman qualified to be President of the United States, and on the other hand, you have Sarah ... But if you think about it, Sarah Palin and Oprah Winfrey have a lot in common. They both helped get Obama elected.

David Eddings

Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives.

Daveigh Chase

I like dark, dramatic roles; they're just really powerful and real.

David A. Bednar

For many of us, conversion is an ongoing process and not a onetime event that results from a powerful or dramatic experience. Line upon line and precept upon precept, gradually and almost imperceptibly, our motives, our thoughts, our words, and our deeds become aligned with the will of God. Conversion unto the Lord requires both persistence and patience.

Dave Grohl

Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.