"Giving back involves a certain amount of giving…" — Colin Powell

"Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up."

— Colin Powell

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190 Quotes by Colin Powell

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Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power…
I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things…
Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future
The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it
Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of…
When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or…
Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty,…
We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as…
I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now…
My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it…

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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes… — Hannah Arendt
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. — Julian Assange
The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of… — Neil Armstrong
NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they… — Neil Armstrong
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. — Margaret Atwood
The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just… — Amitabh Bachchan
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. — Francis Bacon
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed… — Lord Acton
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't… — David Bailey
But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did… — Christian Bale
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort… — Alan Ball
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. — Honore de Balzac

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