Top 100 Powell Quotes
#1. We aim for the practice of Christianity in their everyday life and dealings, and not merely the profession of its theology on Sundays.
Robert Baden-Powell
#3. Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak.
William Powell
#4. Maybe if the men in my life weren't always making smart-ass comments, they wouldn't have to worry about bruises so much.
Julie Powell
#5. Bill Powell is the only intelligent actor I've ever met.
Carole Lombard
#6. Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.
Colin Powell
#8. The one thing the terrorists cannot do
not one of them, not 10 of them, not 10,000 of them
they cannot change who we are.
Colin Powell
#9. So often one thinks that individuals and situations cannot be so extraordinary as they seem from outside: only to find that the truth is a thousand times odder.
Anthony Powell
#10. A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.
Baden Powell De Aquino
#11. I should just stay composed and run to the finish line.
Asafa Powell
#12. You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.
John Wesley Powell
#14. Did you ever hear him in Lohengrin?' demanded Pardoe, taking the ends of his own moustache with both hands, as if about to tear it off and reveal himself in a new identity.
Anthony Powell
#15. America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don't finish high school.
Colin Powell
#16. A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
Robert Baden-Powell
#17. Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games.
Asafa Powell
#18. We need to be fit and ready for anything that might come our way.
Aaron B. Powell
#19. Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more.
Dawn Powell
#20. The bottom line in all of it is that, in life, it's all about people.
Colin Powell
#21. Treat any and all drugs with respect, for most of the time they are stronger than you are.
William Powell
#22. Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
John Powell
#23. Disputing nothing is the first step through the difficult door of happiness
Padgett Powell
#24. Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.
Robert Powell
#25. In the event that armed men of any sort enter the building, watch their feet closely.
Padgett Powell
#26. It was President [Bill] Clinton and the United States congress in 1998 which said that the regime has to be changed because the regime would not give up its weapons of mass destruction. We came into office in 2001 and kept that policy because Saddam Hussein had not changed.
Colin Powell
#27. More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media.
Michael K. Powell
#28. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
Colin Powell
#29. But they also awarded a quite respectable 55th place to Enoch Powell, thereby demonstrating that, for certain sections of the population, being an unpleasant racist constitutes no bar to greatness.
Marc Morris
#30. People in south Manchester overwhelming want to be able to recycle more than they currently can - especially cardboard and plastics - and want more frequent and accessible collections, particularly for those living in flats.
Lucy Powell
#31. I recommended to the president [George Bush] that our focus had to be on al-Qaida, the Taliban and Afghanistan. Those were the ones who attacked the United States of America on 9/11.
Colin Powell
#32. Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.
Enoch Powell
#33. Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.
Julie Powell
#34. The Lord Buddha was once asked by a disciple to sum up the whole of His teaching in one verse. He replied: Cease to do evil; Learn to do well; Cleanse your own heart; This is the religion of the Buddha.
Arthur E. Powell
#35. I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
Nate Powell
#36. There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge. It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability.
Judith Butler
#37. I want that little blonde bitch in the lobby to hear me screaming your name.
Aaron B. Powell
#38. When you help the poorest in the world, you start to move them up an economic and social ladder, and they're not going to be moving toward violence or terrorism of the kind that we worry about.
Colin Powell
#39. I think I have changed," I said.
"I think changes have happened to you," said Kristin. "But that is not the same thing ...
Jim Powell
#40. The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the diapason from tempest to tinkling raindrop, from cataract to bubbling fountain.
John Wesley Powell
#42. And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others. It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.
Aberjhani
#43. We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.
Michael K. Powell
#44. I am a mystic. I believe in hearing the inaudible and touching the intangible and seeing the invisible.
Adam Clayton Powell III
#45. We live in a society where manhood is all about conquering and violence. And what we don't realize is that ultimately that kind of manhood ultimately kills you.
Kevin Powell
#46. If you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no matter what it costs him.
Robert Baden-Powell
#48. Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.
Powell Clayton
#49. Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.
Colin Powell
#50. The only laws a man can truly respect are the ones he makes for himself.
William Powell
#51. Like the muscles knew from the beginning that it would end with this, this inevitable falling apart ... It's sad, but a relief as well to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence, leaving smooth surfaces instead of bloody shreds.
Julie Powell
#52. God is able to make all grace abound toward you that you alway having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work
Anthony B. Powell
#53. Northern Ireland still suffers from its past, and it will take generations to escape sectarianism and for violence to end totally. Nonetheless, it is in a different place now than during the Troubles, and it will not go back to the old days.
Jonathan Powell
#54. If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.
Padgett Powell
#55. Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
Colin Powell
#56. Leave the world in better conditions in wich you found it.
Baden Powell
#57. Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.
Harry Belafonte
#58. Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.
Anthony Powell
#59. In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.
Lucy Powell
#60. I am confident that we will find evidence that makes it clear he had weapons of mass destruction.
Colin Powell
#61. How serious is it to cut out that little section behind the brow that separates what a Nice Girl Sees and Hears from What Really Happens.
Dawn Powell
#62. For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts; and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.
Lucy Powell
#63. Retired general Colin Powell famously advocates collecting half of the information available, then making a decision, even though your information is clearly incomplete.
Josh Kaufman
#64. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
Enoch Powell
#65. These are the times when we aficionados of the gas stove know we are on the side of God.
Julie Powell
#66. We would like to see new leaders come forward who would be accountable and responsible, who would succeed in ending the terror and the violence. And it is up to the Palestinian people to judge who those new leaders should be.
Colin Powell
#67. Officers have been trying for hundreds of years to outsmart soldiers and have still not learned that it cannot be done. We can always count on the native ingenuity of the American GI to save us from ourselves, and to win wars.
Colin Powell
#68. I'm a solid Labour party supporter. I aspired to be a Labour MP, but it's difficult to make the leap from the Foreign Office.
Jonathan Powell
#69. I think we need to be a bit more proactive. Let's not just talk about availability of sports, let's make the facilities more accessible to kids and make them want to come along.
Hope Powell
#70. We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.
Lucy Powell
#71. I try to be the same person I was yesterday.
Colin Powell
#72. Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.
John Powell
#73. People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.
Enoch Powell
#74. You know, I think that President Obama is a person who has a great relationship with a number of people. Colin Powell does, too. I think Colin Powell is a fine American, a great leader and sees things in President Obama that he agrees with. He's entitled to have his opinion.
Pete Sessions
#75. pounding so hard he fancied he could hear it over
Ron Powell
#76. It is, after all, envy rather than jealousy that causes most of the trouble in married life.
Anthony Powell
#79. If there is a political cause, then there has to be a political solution.
Jonathan Powell
#80. Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut.
Colin Powell
#81. People can only be themselves,' she said. 'If they possessed the qualities you desire in them, they would be different people.'
'That is what I should like them to be.
Anthony Powell
#82. I have a number of places on my wish list, including Antarctica, the Norwegian fjords, and the Amazon. I have a passion for wilderness, and Siberia is on my list - however, that may be a bridge too far.
Robert Powell
#83. Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.
William Powell
#84. Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.
Julie Powell
#85. The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.
Dick Powell
#86. No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
Enoch Powell
#87. I hope those who shouted "Fascist" and "Nazi" are aware that before they were born I was fighting against Fascism and Nazism.
Enoch Powell
#88. We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
Lawrence Clark Powell
#89. I never wanted to kiss anyone more than I did when Dean Powell opened his beautiful, sleepy eyes and looked at me.
Lily Paradis
#90. Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?
Padgett Powell
#91. Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.
Padgett Powell
#92. When it comes to the skin, there are two possible ways to tighten it up: surgery, or develop the muscle underneath! It is like blowing up a balloon underneath some wrinkly sheets. It eventually pulls them tight!
Chris Powell
#93. Once you do a piece on the stage, you become that poem or you become that piece. That's really who you are. I think that's why some artists have stage names, you know? I don't have a stage name, it's pretty much just me.
Clinton D. Powell
#94. There is one man," the artist said after a moment. He'd paled. "H. F. Powell."
"Where would I find him?"
West didn't seem to hear him for a moment. He shook his head as if clearing away cobwebs from his brain. "Find him?" His laugh was more of a grunt. "Six feet under, last I checked.
B. J. Daniels
#95. In a phone interview in 1994, Celia Powell stressed two sentiments: music was her father's life; it was the driving force of his existence, in her opinion. And she thought the music industry had very much taken advantage of him.121
Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.
#96. Saudi Arabia will have to decide its own path, and I don't know if it will decide a path like any other nation in the region or if it will design something that is unique to Saudi Arabia.
Colin Powell
#97. I want to be the king of sprints because I think I am.
Asafa Powell
#98. The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.
Cecil Frank Powell
#99. A proposal is a document that says you understand your client's needs. It says you know how to help and that you can, and it sets the expectation for a better future.
Nathan Powell
#100. Lauren," Kenzie managed finally as she dramatically fanned herself, and then me. "You did not just meet him last night."
"No really," I said when I could speak. "He kind of swept me off my feet. Literally.
Lily Paradis
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