George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.George Bernard Shaw
Quotes to Explore
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
Laura Schlessinger -
Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
Barton Gellman -
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
Ian Mcewan -
Human nature is above all things lazy.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
Francesca Annis -
To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
Ian MacKaye
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
Patricia Cornwell -
If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
Earl Warren -
We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.
Dan Ariely -
I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
Kate del Castillo -
Political correctness kills discussion.
Lars von Trier -
We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
Ferdinand Marcos
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
Carl Hiaasen -
I will run against anybody.
Usain Bolt -
I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
Paloma Faith -
However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
Joanne Rowling -
Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?
Wendy O. Williams -
Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
Samuel Gompers
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I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I decided to pick out the greatest hitter to watch and study, and Jackson was good enough for me. I liked the way he kept his right foot forward, being a left-handed hitter, and his left foot back. That gave him more body and shoulder power than the average hitter has.
Babe Ruth -
Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways. So these technologies that we thought would dis-intermediate traditional sellers gave more people the tools to be sellers. It also changed the balance of power between sellers and buyers.
Daniel H. Pink -
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Charles A. Beard -
Power is the ability to achieve purpose.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
George Bernard Shaw