Famous quotes containing the words maximum, power and/or point:
“I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanityit had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in ones mind.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.”
—Woodrow Wilson (18561924)
“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening ones love upon other human individuals.”
—George Orwell (19031950)