Proximity To Power Quotes

#1. Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

Tariq Ali

#2. Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.

Frank Underwood

#3. "Back in the day when I started - it's like I walked five miles to school in the snow barefooted" - there were three channels.I don't know what I would do.

Oprah Winfrey

#4. It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.

John McClenahan

#5. Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.

Jane Austen

#6. No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
[Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#7. Christ instructs us to stand up bravely for our beliefs ... He asks us to let our lights shine.

Thomas S. Monson

#8. Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Jean Baudrillard

#9. Triumph doesn't have a universl measure!

Justina R. Page

#10. My physique is down to 20 years of eating cheese.

Ricky Gervais

#11. Success leaves clues, Proximity is power. Love your family, CHOOSE your peers.

Tony Robbins

#12. I had that thing of wanting to prove I was a tough kid.

Scott Caan

#13. I've committed to nothing ... and that's just suicide ... by tiny, tiny increments.

Nick Hornby

#14. Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don't Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can't Decide My Future

Thomas A. Edison

#15. The prince shrugged. Who needs magic when you look this good?

Victoria Schwab

#16. Intuition knows what the mind can't see yet.

Maria Erving

#17. Real happiness comes from a deeper place, not from anything external. The freshest and best water flows from the deepest, darkest chasms of the mountain. Likewise, true happiness flows from the hidden places of the human heart.

Bobby Schuller

#18. I know I'm not exactly a bombshell, but one has to make the best of what one's got.

Joan Sutherland