C. F. Powell Quotes

When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.

I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.

A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer, and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.

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.

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.

We view Egypt as a good friend of America. We are in constant touch with them. We provide them economic and military assistance as part of our relationship.

Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.

It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them.

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

I was married to Glenn Ford. But now I feel as though I'm married to God, and in the nicest, purest sense.

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

I should just stay composed and run to the finish line.

An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.

Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.

Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.

An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.

A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.

I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.

Let's not forget that Congress bears a lot of responsibility for many of the problems we have now

Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.

The best diet is the one that you don't know you are on.

To get hold of your boys you must be their friend.

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn't prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.

If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but with ideals and concepts he is willing to die for.

There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

Little changes over time are the secret to long term weight loss success!

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.

You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.

You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.

It is a pity that the words "spiritual life" were ever invented, for they have caused so much confusion. For, in truth, there is only life-everyday life-which is simply what is at every moment.

The media only report stupid or careless answers, not stupid or unfair questions.

There are times with your friends when you just have to put their whole mess out of your mind for a while.

God is to us like the sky to a small bird, which cannot see its outer limits and cannot reach its distant horizons, but can only lose itself in the greatness and immensity of the blueness.

We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.

A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.

Doors are going to open-doors you can't even imagine exist.