Quotes of: Powerful-people Keyword

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

Roger Mudd

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

Steven Moffat

Change is not in the hands of government, not in the hands of a leader or guru, and not in the hands of the powerful or wealthy. It is in our hands: the hands of each and every one of us.

Shari Arison

The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change.

Simon Mainwaring

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

P. J. O'Rourke

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Thomas Browne

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

John C. Maxwell

I like to think that the Internet and file sharing, if utilized properly and embraced, and I emphasize properly, is a high-powered marketing design.

Seal

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

Jim DeMint

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

Anthony Bourdain

I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high.

Frank B. Kellogg

There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.

Jose Mujica

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Jean Rostand

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.

Allison Janney

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

Irving Babbitt

For a good chunk of Israelis, it doesn't matter who is in power when it comes to dealing with the Palestinians. Their focus was more on economic issues.

Jonathan Katz

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

John Ruskin

There has to be that feeling in a good villain - that he's awesome, he has his own power; that he is, in several senses, unstoppable.

Peter Coyote

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.

Thomas Hooker