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Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.
— Ruth Ozeki
You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.
— Harbhajan Singh
A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
— Nancy Gibbs
On the back benches, you can have your say but no power to do anything.
— Bob Ainsworth
It seems as if, for every dragon head that is lopped off, two more terrible appear. Seems so. But in truth, Life is gaining all the while. Brute force, such power as there seems to be in things, cannot stand against ideas which are eternal.
— Edward Everett Hale
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
— Josh Billings
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
— Eric Hoffer
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
— Thomas J. Watson
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
— Raoul Vaneigem
Power is the by-product of understanding.
— Jacob Bronowski
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
— Erich Fromm
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
— Samuel Johnson
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
— Emile Coue
It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
— Gabriele Nanni
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
— Emile M. Cioran
I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before.
— James Irwin
It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.
— William Thomas Stead
I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.
— Stephen Lewis
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
— Carroll Quigley
The Constitution was about a limitation on power.
— Roy Moore
Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.
— Robert Casey
Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
— Charles Babbage
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
— Giacomo Casanova
The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other.
— Charles Hodge
Power's not what the Constitution was about.
— Roy Moore
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.
— Bernard Baruch
The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.
— David Ogilvy
The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
— Edwin Land
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
— Erich Fromm
Power is dangerous unless you have humility.
— Richard J. Daley
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
— Thomas Jefferson
Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
— Lech Walesa
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
— A. J. P. Taylor
Every crisis offers you extra desired power.
— William Moulton Marston
Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.
— Benjamin F. Wade
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
— Walter Savage Landor
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
— William Shenstone
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
— M. Scott Peck
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
— Louisa May Alcott
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
— Joseph Conrad
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
— Fawn M. Brodie
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
— Colin Powell
The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.
— George W. Bush
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
— Gloria Steinem
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
— James F. Cooper
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
— Winston Churchill
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
— Kate Millett
To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power.
— George MacDonald
The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.
— Corazon Aquino
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
— Ossie Davis
God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.
— William S. Paley
The point of power is always in the present moment.
— Louise L. Hay
I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
— Vicente Fox
Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?
— George Fox
When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.
— Michael Ende
You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
— Harry Browne
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
— Jonathan Edwards
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
— Corazon Aquino
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
— Amelia Barr
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
— James F. Cooper
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
— Spiro T. Agnew
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
— William Godwin
When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.
— Robert Bork
I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.
— Manmohan Singh
From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
— Yukihiro Matsumoto
But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power.
— Joshua Chamberlain
There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.
— Garry Kasparov
The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers.
— Suzy Bogguss
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.
— Gerrit Smith
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
— Herbert Read
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.
— John Burns
But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.
— Tina Turner
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
— Maggie Gallagher
Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.
— Todd Gitlin
Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.
— Wilson Greatbatch
The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.
— Leon Foucault
The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
— Breyten Breytenbach
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
— Elia Kazan
After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.
— James Prescott Joule
Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.
— James Prescott Joule
Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.
— Walter Rauschenbusch
When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.
— Leland Stanford
All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions.
— Charles Hodge
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
— John Boyd Orr
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
— Winston Churchill
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has great power should use it lightly.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
— George Bernard Shaw
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
— Alice Walker
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
— Bertrand Russell
In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.
— Pope Francis
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
— Ambrose Bierce
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
— Ambrose Bierce
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
— Thomas Carlyle
The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
— Eric Hoffer
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
— Eric Hoffer
Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
— Honore de Balzac
Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.
— Bryant H. McGill
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.
— Dick Dale
Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.
— Deborah Tannen
I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.
— Itzhak Perlman
A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.
— Pierre Corneille
Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
— Andrew Young
Order is power.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Politics is not about power.
— Paul Wellstone
Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
— Jose Marti
Power is paradoxical.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
— Barney Frank
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
— Jean Rostand
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.
— James Lovelock
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
— Stendhal
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
— Don DeLillo
To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.
— Black Elk
Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.
— Thom Yorke
No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.
— Allen Klein
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
— Tacitus
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
— Saul Alinsky
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
— Charles de Secondat
I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.
— David R. Brower
I decided that we should have a flag, that a flag fit us as a symbol, that we are a people, a tribe if you will. And flags are about proclaiming power, so it's very appropriate.
— Gilbert Baker
The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.
— Chris Matthews
I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.
— Klaus Kinski
Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.
— Lester B. Pearson
So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.
— David Bohm
Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
— E. Stanley Jones
America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.
— Adam Schiff
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
— Cesare Pavese
Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
— Ludwig von Mises
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
— Alexis Carrel
Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.
— James Stockdale
A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.
— Richard V. Allen
I believe in the power of weakness.
— Pat Buckley
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
— James F. Cooper
If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
— Orson Pratt
We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
— Gale Norton
We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.
— Gustav Heinemann
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
— George A. Smith
The only power you have is the word no.
— Frances McDormand
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
— Barbara Olson
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
— Henry George
I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble.
— Mary McDonnell
There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
— Everett Dirksen
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
— Howard Zinn
The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.
— Matt Blunt
As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
— Ralph Adams Cram
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
— Gustave Courbet
The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.
— Chris Bell
I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.
— Gaylord Nelson
I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.
— Faith Ringgold
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
— John Rawls
As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.
— Douglas Hyde
The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.
— Thaddeus Stevens
We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine.
— Dwight L. Moody
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
— Saint Augustine
Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.
— William Barclay
The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.
— Charles Stanley
A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?
— Hugh Mackay
A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.
— Dwight L. Moody
What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.
— Chuck Palahniuk
I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.
— Kaley Cuoco
Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
— E. Stanley Jones
The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.
— Rick Warren
A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.
— James E. Faust
What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.
— Lea DeLaria
I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
— Victoria Beckham
Easter is an arts and crafts moment where your whole family and friends can get involved.
— Alex Guarnaschelli
The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.'
— Spike Milligan
The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.
— Josh McDowell
I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.
— Daniel Morgan
I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.
— Amy Sedaris
We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.
— Joel Osteen
The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.
— Deepak Chopra
Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.
— Reba McEntire
Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
— Basil Hume
The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.
— Kenneth Scott Latourette
Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness - I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time.
— Jennifer McMahon
Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.
— Benjamin Franklin
During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
— Joel Osteen
Here's the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving. And I think the reason they always have Easter moving to different dates is to catch us.
— Denis Leary
Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.
— Michael Leunig
Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many, and all the loss of passion and truth that goes with it.
— Michael Leunig
But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
— Bono
I remember my mom bought me one of their shirts for Easter so that I could wear Helmut Lang for Easter. That was my first piece.
— Travis Scott
I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.
— Julie Burchill
Each year in early spring, during the season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Easter, a plenitude of books, magazine articles, and television shows about Jesus appear.
— Jay Parini
In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore.
— Pico Iyer
Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.
— Todd Rundgren
My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
— Amy Sedaris
Even if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.
— Trey Parker
Easter is one of my favorite holidays with the kids. They get to run loose, and we always have our family and loved ones all around us!
— Camila Alves
People come together with their families to celebrate Easter. What better way to celebrate than to spend a few hours going on the journey of Christ's life.
— Roma Downey
For those of you who still believe in the Easter Bunny and that the letters that appear in your local newspaper come from concerned citizens who really care, I've got troubling news. At least in politics, most of the letters that get published on the letters-to-the-editor page originate in the campaign headquarters of the candidates.
— Peter Navarro
Fortunately, the DC Universe is full enough and replete enough with every kind of character that you could want, that it's not that hard to find the right character. Sometimes it's nothing more than an Easter egg, or a name drop, and sometimes it's someone like 'Deathstroke,' who is a huge part of the DC Universe.
— Marc Guggenheim
At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.
— Ethel Merman
Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
— Josh McDowell
Winning the 2007 Master's was a dream fulfilled culminating on Easter Sunday with my family was very special. You couldn't write it up any better.
— Zach Johnson
I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.
— Kevin James
Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'
— Phillips Brooks
Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.
— William Weld
I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great.
— Jacques Pepin
I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter that's it. It's a task I love.
— Olivia De Havilland
Between the three, Facebook is literally everyone I've ever shaken hands with at a conference or kissed on the cheek at Easter. Twitter seems to be everyone I am entertained by or I wish to meet some day. Foursquare seems to be everyone I run into on a regular basis. All three of those social graphs are powerful in their own.
— Dennis Crowley
I was raised - and still consider myself to be - Catholic, though I'm non-practicing and haven't fulfilled my Easter duty since sometime during the Nixon years. I'm assailed by all kinds of stimulating doubts, but I do believe in God.
— Thomas Mallon
God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
— Robert South
To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
— Bernhard Langer
Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.
— Marvin Olasky
My passion was to be on Broadway and to be part of this community because I saw what it was like from the outside as the young kid in and around New York, and I would see things like the 'Easter Bonnet' or 'Broadway Bares,' things I would sneak into.
— Max von Essen
What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
— Walter Martin
And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.
— John Guare
I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.
— Leon Uris
To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.
— William Tyndale
'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.
— Jason Scott Lee
When you ran out the tunnel at the old Easter Road for a derby game, you'd get a spittal right on the back of your head. They were spitting on you as you ran out, which actually helped get you going. It was some place.
— Drew Busby
I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs.
— Simon Kinberg
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
— Spike Milligan
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
— Mark Zuckerberg
To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.
— Ricky Nelson
Growth is never by mere chance it is the result of forces working together.
— James Cash Penney
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
— Sammy Hagar
Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.
— Emilie Autumn
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
— Desmond Tutu
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
— Paulo Coelho
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
— Jim Rohn
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
— John F. Kennedy
America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
— George W. Bush
People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.
— David Millar
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.
— Paul Auster
If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you've got to have fun.
— Lindsey Vonn
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
— Albert Camus
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
— Maimonides
First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
— Oksana Baiul
If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
— Tommy Lasorda
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
— William Jennings Bryan
Just keep taking chances and having fun.
— Garth Brooks
I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
— Bela Lugosi
Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.
— Joyce Meyer
If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
— Richard M. Nixon
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
— Jean Nidetch
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
— Dale Carnegie
Beware of missing chances otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.
— Franz Liszt
Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.
— Robert Altman
Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?
— Mandy Patinkin
If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.
— Pete Rose
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
— Ovid
If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.
— Peter Benchley
If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
— Red Skelton
My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.
— Pancho Villa
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
— Isaac Newton
I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
— Jack Lew
Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out.
— Johnny Marr
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
— Douglas Horton
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
— Chuck Yeager
Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?
— Jimmy Johnson
What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
— Barack Obama
It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.
— Albert Pujols
Coffee has always been a significant part of my life. For me, it's a chance to start my day and gather my thoughts - it's fuel for my creative process.
— Connor Franta
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
— John Stuart Mill
The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.
— Jack Canfield
A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some press release baloney.
— Richard Branson
I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet.
— Benjamin Franklin
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
— Arnold Palmer
Like everyone else in this world, I have had struggles. There's disappointment and obstacles in everybody's life. I feel like I was writing 'Second Chance' not just for myself, but also for the people who have struggled.
— El DeBarge
If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.
— Rolf Harris
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.
— Pauline Kael
When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.
— Richard Branson
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
— Charlie Chaplin
If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?
— Naveen Andrews
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
— Charles Kettering
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
— Walt Disney
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
— Tony Blair
My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
— Wayne Brady
Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.
— Deb Caletti
Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.
— David Packard
My belief is you have one chance to make a first impression.
— Kevin McCarthy
If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.
— Arsene Wenger
Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?
— Phyllis Diller
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
— Robert H. Schuller
Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
— Gary Gygax
I live in a constant state of gratitude, thankfulness, and appreciation for the second chance I was given, so anytime in any film, when that is given to someone, I always appreciate it.
— Shawn Michaels
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
— Bono
Colorful garments - ball gowns, kimonos, evening pajamas - made from yards upon yards of iridescent silk or velvet. I own an unjustifiable number of such outfits and jump at the chance to wear them. Against the etiquette about which I am otherwise all too conscious, I frequently, and unrepentantly, overdress for the occasion.
— Julia Glass
If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.
— Neil Simon
Don't listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, they'd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance.
— Michael Cudlitz
The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.
— Demi Moore
The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.
— Mike Love
The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.
— Julian Baggini
Stuff doesn't matter - boats, cars, fancy things don't matter. What matters, what will matter to me, is the love of the people around me, and did I take a chance? Did I seize an opportunity to do something for people with the talents that I was lucky enough to be given? Did I make a difference in the lives of people who needed me?
— James Comey
Each of us has about 40 chances to accomplish our goals in life. I learned this first through agriculture, because all farmers can expect to have about 40 growing seasons, giving them just 40 chances to improve on every harvest.
— Howard Graham Buffett
Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.
— Shannen Doherty
So when you get a chance to look at things and chill and relax, it makes you want it more, and that's why I'm so happy to be back!
— Brandy Norwood
Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.
— Dana Perino
I think one of the coolest things you can do is disappear for a while, because it gives you the chance to re-emerge. To sort of pounce out of the jungle.
— Josh Homme
Chance is a word void of sense nothing can exist without a cause.
— Voltaire
When I get the chance to make my favorite breakfast on the weekend, I often choose to make pancakes.
— Marcus Samuelsson
What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
— Rahul Dravid
I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
— Wayne Newton
Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.
— Jonas Salk