All Quotes

Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy.
‐‐ Dan Webster

Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power.
‐‐ Sander Levin

Power tires only those who do not have it.
‐‐ Giulio Andreotti

Power to the peaceful!
‐‐ Michael Franti

Power wears out those who don't have it.
‐‐ Giulio Andreotti

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
‐‐ Henry Adams

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
‐‐ Catherine the Great

Power without abuse loses its charm.
‐‐ Paul Valery

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
‐‐ Tony Blair

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
‐‐ Publilius Syrus

Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks. The goal of the treatment is not just partial improvement but full recovery.
‐‐ David D. Burns

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
‐‐ John Henrik Clarke

Powerful, quick and agile, Serena Williams thrives on winning.
‐‐ Don Yaeger

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
‐‐ Mikhail Bakunin

Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid.
‐‐ Donatella Versace

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.
‐‐ David Byrne

'Powers of Persuasion: The Story of British Advertising' by Winston Fletcher - the impression you get from reading this book, which covers post-war advertising until the present, is of a chaotic, self-serving, occasionally brilliant but ultimately shallow business.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright

PR and marketing doesn't sell books. It gets attention for them. It sends readers to bookstores and websites to read a few pages.
‐‐ M. J. Rose

PR is extremely important, and being able to use it in the right way means everything. You have to market your success.
‐‐ Lee Haney

Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts.
‐‐ Phoebe Cates

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
‐‐ Henry Adams

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
‐‐ Austin O'Malley

Practical storage pieces are great if you have a basement or a garage. But when you actually live with them day in and day out, they should be beautiful to look at.
‐‐ Thom Filicia

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
‐‐ Samuel Smiles

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
‐‐ Barry Schwartz

Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to a minimum.
‐‐ Konrad Lorenz

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.
‐‐ Hu Shih

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall

Practically and commercially speaking, a dollar is not necessarily a specific thing, made of silver, or gold, or any other single metal, or substance. It is only such a quantum of market value as exists in a given piece of silver or gold.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner

Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.
‐‐ Lee Child

Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.
‐‐ Mort Kondracke

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.
‐‐ Dennis Weaver

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.
‐‐ Michael Novak

Practically every technology that is ever invented is touted as being the new savior, the thing that will bring peace and goodwill to the earth, but immediately it falls into other hands who see it as the opportunity to promote the very opposite.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
‐‐ Groucho Marx

Practically everybody knows what it's like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel.
‐‐ David D. Burns

Practically everyone I know now is from a middle- or upper-middle-class background, and I no longer have the huge chip on my shoulder that I carried around for so many years. I'm not sure it comes out much in the work, but coming from this kind of background is absolutely central to my identity, to my sense of who I am.
‐‐ Geoff Dyer

Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who's been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone famous, slept with someone famous, been blackmailed by someone famous.
‐‐ Jennifer Grey

Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.
‐‐ Marc Andreessen

Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief.
‐‐ Benjamin Hoff

Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
‐‐ Campbell Scott

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.
‐‐ Andrew Greeley

Practically the whole world depends on coral reefs, so if the coral reefs get all killed, then the ocean will start going out of whack, and if the ocean goes out of whack, something might happen on land.
‐‐ Alexander Gould

Practice being curious; want to know things; ask questions.
‐‐ Anders Holm

Practice being in the moment when you are running, whether you are on your own or in the race.
‐‐ Jennifer Carpenter

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
‐‐ Vince Lombardi

Practice every time you get a chance.
‐‐ Bill Monroe

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
‐‐ Brian Tracy