C. F. Powell Quotes

It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don't bother to ask.

The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.

There is only one China. Taiwan is not independent. It does not enjoy sovereignty as a nation.

No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.

First you train the followers to accomplish the mission. Second, you resource them: Make sure that they have the tools to do the job. Third, you reward them: You give them medals or bonuses.

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

Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.

The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.

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

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is "no." That's not America.

There is no teaching to compare with example.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Health and fitness are totally a choice for a better quality of life.

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.

Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.

What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about.

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

I should like to have been killed in the war.

I think about cars to try and distract myself. It's a good way to relax, take your mind off everything.

It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.

There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.

I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.

The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.

My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.

Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better.

I think part of being a good coach is knowing how to extract the best from different people.

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.

One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.

It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

I am trying to attend every training session and do all of my workouts.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.

Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.

Even if we fail, we are still gaining life experience. The worst thing that could happen is that we come out smarter and more prepared for our next challenge.

There is no suggestion of regime change; quite the contrary, this is an initiative to help people and to help governments who are inclined toward change.

I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.

I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.

Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

Always find different ways to accomplish the mission. Then run a counter-analysis and list the advantages and disadvantages. When you have done that, you are ready to make a decision.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.