Potentates Quotes

#1. There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and approbation ... "There went out a decree in the days of Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed."

Charles Caleb Colton

#2. When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call 'the Chicago way.'

Thomas Frank

#3. In India, as we saw, the Sepoy Mutiny led to a vast reorganization of British colonialism in the area, sending out a viceroy from London and before too long, Queen Victoria was proclaimed "Empress of India," with this great empire, ruling over maharajahs and other local potentates.

Webster Tarpley

#4. Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.

Ernest Hollings

#5. May peace rule the universe; may peace rule in kingdoms and empires; may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates; may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.

Virchand Gandhi

#6. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.

Winston Churchill

#7. There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry - the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.

Emma Goldman

#8. MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and Imperial Potentates of the ancient and honorable orders of republican America.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. It is only when you have become that true Self consciously, when all these illusions have fallen away, that you will be perfectly free and perfectly happy.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

Alan Blinder

#11. Valve wouldn't have gotten its start

Gabe Newell

#12. I both laid and sucked eggs? That didn't make sense.

Mike Mullin

#13. Spare no expense to save money on this one.

Samuel Goldwyn

#14. If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

Tullian Tchividjian

#15. It's hard to imagine hate that I am facing from allover the world yet I am not alone with mistakes.

Auliq Ice

#16. Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.

Jeremy Paxman

#17. You think I'm defeated. You think you've passed your judgement and that's the end of it. Oh, you think it's as simple as that. Well you are wrong. I shall never have vengeance for this moment, but you will see me again. You will see me again.

Anne Rice

#18. I do not think the crowd affected us, but the position of being in a big time game may well have affected us.

Les Miles

#19. The point of the list wasn't just to tick items off and forget about them, it was to learn something new.

Lindsey Kelk

#20. I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

Tennessee Williams