Power Of Association Quotes

#1. The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.

John Ruskin

#2. One moment of company with the holy makes a ship to cross this ocean of life. Such is the power of association.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. It is only through the power of association that those of any calling exercise due influence in their communities.

Elihu Root

#4. I'd say, for my freshman year in college, I was doing everything in my power to hide the fact that I had ever had any association with the Paul Green School of Rock Music because it was like this bruise. It was such a sore subject.

Madi Diaz

#5. When a comic becomes enamored with his own views and foists them off on the public in a polemic way, he loses not only his sense of humor but his value as a humorist.

Johnny Carson

#6. Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.

Laozi

#7. The Grocery Manufacturers Association is behind the bills which have been trying to pre-empt states' labeling laws in the Senate. And they have a lot of money and power in Washington. So it's a classic David versus Goliath story, where corporate lobbying outweighs consumers' rights.

Zoe Lister-Jones

#8. Don't be afraid of losing a little power in daily associations. People who seek power and knowledge aren't misers. They aren't afraid. That is paranoid.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Global interconnectedness has led to the emergence of a new political power, that of consumers and their associations. It is good for people to realize that purchasing is always a moral - and not simply economic - act.

Pope Benedict XVI

#10. Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All.

Richard Stallman

#11. The novel ceases to be looked at as a novel. Such is the overwhelming power of motion pictures. Gore Vidal pointed out that the movies are the only thing anybody's really interested in. The association with movies and movie money can, and certainly did in my case, occlude a novel as a novel.

William Monahan

#12. You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

Daniel Craig

#13. The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.

Rob Bell

#14. Through the passage of my life I have learned, that the power of positive association is so much stronger than any amount of negativity in the world. No matter how dark it is, a tiny beam of light is all it takes to kill the darkest of darkness.

Asma Naqi

#15. If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger.

Chin-Ning Chu

#16. Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was nothing but an aching grey blankness ...

Diana Gabaldon

#17. You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.

Rufus Choate

#18. The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible. ["The Power of Christian Young Men", Address at the Young Men's Christian Association's Celebration, Pittsburgh, October 24, 1914]

Woodrow Wilson

#19. I'll be damned if I apologize for the choices I've made. They were hard decisions, but I had good reasons for making them.

Christine Feehan

#20. Of all your associations, it is your relationship with God, your Heavenly Father, who is the source of your moral power.

D. Todd Christofferson

#21. It's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.

Chris Cooper

#22. Most of the words we use in history and everyday speech are like mental depth charges. As they descend [through our consciousness] and detonate, their resonant power is unleashed, showering our understanding with fragments of accumulated meaning and association.

James Axtell

#23. Those who hate rain hate life.

Dejan Stojanovic

#24. Love is no assignment for cowards.

Ovid

#25. All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.

Joseph De Maistre

#26. Ignoring for a moment the power of the American Medical Association, we still wouldn't see a huge amount of books on neurosurgery for dummies in 21 days or whatever. It's just plain inappropriate, and it's intentionally out of people's reach.

Erik Naggum

#27. Worrying is not preparation." So

Christina Lauren

#28. We must all know that each mediocrity, each surrender, each act of complacency will harm us as much as the enemy's rifles.

Albert Camus

#29. The Alzheimer's Association is what I am passionate about. My grandfather had it. My mom has it. It's a horrible disease, and with our aging population, it's a growing problem. It's terrible to lose your brain and your power to be conscious or in the moment.

Graham Shiels

#30. I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?

Larry Kramer

#31. I've got a lot to say about television. There's a lot going on in television right now and I feel like a huge part of television.

Ellen DeGeneres