Brandon Sanderson Quotes

'At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.'

Brandon Sanderson

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• We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • May
  • Power
  • Change

• The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Together
  • Peace

• The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Power
  • Law
  • Government

• I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Power
  • Strong
  • Connection

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Government
  • Organization

• If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • City
  • Responsibility

• The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • War
  • True

• Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Best
  • Safety

• I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Believe
  • Bad

• Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Family
  • Home
  • Peace

• I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Man
  • Peace
  • Violence

• Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you or make you. So, an actor will treat every film like his last film. That's the way we need to work, and that's the way you can drum up that passion needed to do good work.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Important
  • Power
  • Day

• The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Power
  • Society
  • Health

• There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Home
  • Peace
  • Purpose

• I don't think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be created on the ground in the West Bank, and some day, a peace conference will ratify that which has been built on the ground.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Peace

• C has the power of assembly language and the convenience of … assembly language.

  

  Dennis Ritchie
  • Power

• From a gabled roof the rolling melon has two choices of descent, though both lead to disaster.

  

  Andre Norton
  • Choices

• That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • World
  • Picture
  • Museum

• By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet of thick fiberboard. It's big enough to hold a table easel, my big palette and a water container. Winter is not going to lock me indoors!

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Water
  • Car
  • Enough

• 'At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.'

  

  Brandon Sanderson
  • Power
  • Peace