Charles George Gordon Quotes

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Charles George Gordon

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• The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

  

  Barry White
  • Truth
  • Thought
  • Innocent

• We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Power
  • Government
  • Take

• Songwriters tell the truth.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Truth
  • Tell
  • Songwriters

• The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Power
  • Small

• A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Man
  • Smart

• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Tell

• Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Love
  • Truth
  • War

• Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Birth

• As a self-published author, you have the choice. Embrace the power to create a book that is truly yours. Don't be a whiner or a copycat.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Power
  • Author

• Superstition is marked not by its pretension to a body of knowledge but by its method of seeking truth.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• The problem with every judgment of sexual behavior is that it is made by people who aren’t being stimulated as they are making the judgment. A jury that sees a woman in a sterile courtroom, asks her what she wanted, and then assumes that anything else she did was the responsibility of the man is insulting not only the woman but the power of sex.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • She
  • Power

• Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Men
  • Power
  • Political

• Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • People
  • Time
  • Power

• In Australia, there aren't a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema, but they're very small. So, they tend to move ahead on the power of collaboration, enthusiasm and creativity.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.

  

  Fred Barnes
  • Up
  • May
  • Truth

• What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as 'liberal democracy,' 'free markets' and 'Europe' with suspicion.

  

  Donald Tusk
  • Power
  • Free
  • Democracy

• Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.

  

  James Connolly
  • Power
  • Democracy

• It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therfore one seldom does it at all.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  • Time
  • Truth

• The nice thing about 'Farscape' is that you got to be the good guy and still do the bad guy things.

  

  Ben Browder
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• Acquire knowledge and teach it to people.

  

  Umar
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Teach

• Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Bad
  • Equality
  • Behavior

• I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't really care. I'm just having fun, doing something I love and getting paid for it. How cool is that?

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Cool

• If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

  

  Charles George Gordon
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Infinite