Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Wong

War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down.

David Wong

The English language needs a word for that feeling you get when you badly need help, but there is no one you can call because you're not popular enough to have friends, not rich enough to have employees, and not powerful enough to have lackeys. It is a very distinct cocktail of impotence, loneliness and a sudden stark assessment of your non-worth to society? Enturdment?

David O. McKay

The most powerful thing in the world is an idea.

David Malpass

The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but dont fix the underlying problems.

Danny Boyle

Although computer chips now are thinner, they're more powerful, they're not as reliable. You'd harvest computer chips from the 1980s from all around the world because they're reliable.

Danny Boyle

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

Daniel Barenboim

The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right in themselves, but they are so because they come in the proper order. You cannot have equality without liberty, and you certainly cannot have fraternity without equality. The importance of this I learnt from music, because music evolves in time, and therefore the order inevitably determines the content.

Dag Hammarskjold

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

Daisaku Ikeda

Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.

Daisaku Ikeda

Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the future.

Daisaku Ikeda

The heart is what is important." There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.

Muhammad Yunus

Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail.

Abraham A. Ribicoff

Nothing is as sad as seeing a person who used to have power have none.

We're talking about powerful mafias. They're powerful, they're rich and they're ruthless.

James Black

We've been concentrating on the power play. Right now, we have the right power-play combination.

Billy Graham

Ringing assurance that we are not alone... That we are assisted and defended by a powerful and glorious order of invisible Beings.

Billy Graham

...hymns have been a powerful instrument of God to draw people closer to His Word and the saving riches therein.

Billy Graham

MAN is a social animal, gregarious by nature, and finds his greatest sense of security and satisfaction in the company of others who share his interests and attitudes. Of all the many groups into which humans have collected themselves, of all the many tribes, clans, organizations, and societies throughout history, none has been so powerful, so far-reaching, or more universal than the church.

The program is more about teaching than providing ... power for the schools.

George R. R. Martin

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.

Graham Moore

If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets?

Cleveland Amory

Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that I would never get another. I did know full well that there were just too many animals out there in need of homes for me to take what I have always regarded as the self-indulgent road of saying the heartbreak of the loss of an animal was too much ever to want to go through with it again. To me, such an admission brought up the far more powerful admission that all the wonderful times you had with your animal were not worth the unhappiness at the end.

Dante Alighieri

Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.

Dan Simmons

Power: a currency that never went out of style.

Dan Simmons

The powerful have received their share of the world's attention even when their power has been shown as sheer evil. The victim's remain the faceless masses. Numbers. Mass graves. These monsters have fertilized our century with the mass graves of their victims and it is time that the powerless had names and faces -- and voices.

Daphne Oz

When I was young and growing up overweight, I believed the "eaten" was more powerful than the "eater," meaning the food was more powerful than I was.

Dan Pallotta

We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.

Corrie Ten Boom

A man is powerful on his knees.

Cornel West

The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.

Cornel West

Like Richard Ellmann on James Joyce, Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison is in a class of its own. His masterful and magisterial book is the most powerful and profound treatment of Ellison's undeniable artistic genius, deep personal flaws, and controversial political evolution. And he reveals an Ellison unbeknownst to all of us. From now on, all serious scholarship on Ellison must begin with Rampersad's instant and inimitable classic in literary biography.

Common

One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.