All Quotes

The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both of his legs amputated below the knee. Using upside down question mark-shaped carbon fiber sprinting prosthetics, called Cheetah blades, Mr. Pistorius can challenge the fastest sprinters in the world.
‐‐ Daniel H. Wilson

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.
‐‐ John Lennon

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
‐‐ Adolf Loos

The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.
‐‐ Frank Shorter

The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.
‐‐ Bill Gates

The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy efficiency utility, Efficiency Vermont, created more than 430 jobs in 2007 and 2008, generating more than $40 million in income.
‐‐ Peter Welch

The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics - is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.
‐‐ Steve Lacy

The potential for Twitter is spectacular and great.
‐‐ Al-Waleed bin Talal

The potential in many environmental issues is that if you undertake corrective action without appropriate understanding of the problem, then you wind up doing more harm than good.
‐‐ Hugh Ross

The potential of your body is endless.
‐‐ Thierry Mugler

The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made.
‐‐ Kina Grannis

The poverty found in rural areas has some characteristics that are very different from the poverty found in inner cities.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.
‐‐ Thiruvalluvar

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
‐‐ John Berger

The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila, and has made me, as someone living in a society of great wealth and someone who's never had to worry about the next meal, think seriously about what universal responsibility really means.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
‐‐ H. Rap Brown

The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy class of 1968 who served as liaisons between the Marine Corps and the Brigade of Midshipmen later suffered nine Purple Hearts in Vietnam, and one man killed in action.
‐‐ Jim Webb

The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.
‐‐ Art Buchwald

The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject.
‐‐ Ben Edwards

The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.
‐‐ Narendra Modi

The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
‐‐ Eddie Trunk

The power dynamics in a relationship are going to be fluid over a long period of time, so to wait for 'perfect' is going to be a mistake.
‐‐ Jason Segel

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
‐‐ Eckhart Tolle

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.
‐‐ Sandra Day O'Connor

The power lies with content creators now, but if you can't reach people, there's no point.
‐‐ Dana Brunetti

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
‐‐ Laura Bush

The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. It has a unique scent. It requires deciphering. But, most important, it's flawed.
‐‐ Ashton Kutcher

The power of a person derives not from the office he occupies but from a clear sense of direction and aspiration and from a willingness to struggle for his ways and beliefs.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.
‐‐ Michael Schudson

The power of affinity lies in its mystery: the way it stands outside everything logical; you step into a crowded room and see a stranger, and somehow you feel you know her better than you know the friends you came with.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

The power of being in the physical presence of another person delivers real benefits.
‐‐ Henry Cloud

The power of celebrity backing has been crucial. I would say that 90 percent of our brand recognition comes from celebrities wearing my pieces.
‐‐ Naeem Khan

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
‐‐ Origen

The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been oppressive. Public credit is as necessary for the prosperity of a nation as private credit is for the support and wealth of a family.
‐‐ Oliver Ellsworth

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.
‐‐ Mark Hyman

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.
‐‐ Chad Hurley

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
‐‐ Jane Austen

The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties.
‐‐ Susan Stewart

The power of Facebook is not only in the vast size of the connected audience, but also in the quality of the social ties and interactions that occur within the network. The Facebook social graph fuels our mantra 'Try it for free', 'Share it if you like it', 'Buy it if you love it.'
‐‐ David Perry

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
‐‐ Augustus Hare

The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure.
‐‐ John Caudwell

The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
‐‐ Immaculee Ilibagiza

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift

The power of Haitian heritage and the strength of the Haitian people is tremendous. And Haiti holds a unique and rich role in the history of African Americans.
‐‐ Cheryl Mills

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
‐‐ John Muir

The power of incumbency cannot be underestimated.
‐‐ Eric Swalwell

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
‐‐ Lao Tzu