Keep Your Powder Dry Quotes & Sayings

Man has infinite power within himself, and he can realise it - he can realise himself as the one infinite Self. It can be done; but you do not believe it. You pray to God and keep your powder dry all the time. — Swami Vivekananda

Keep your powder dry. — Philip Pullman

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future. — Steve Jobs

Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies. — Dylan Thomas

If you treat them like children, then get ready for your company to turn into one big Barney episode. — Ben Horowitz

(On her work in Keep Your Powder Dry) I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM. — Laraine Day

When one bearded gentleman passed by the line and exclaimed, "Well, he looks like me," Lincoln was heard to observe: "I did not look at him, but I take it that he is a very handsome man." Meeting a gunpowder manufacturer burdened with the Dickensian name of "Hazard," he could not resist advising him to "keep his powder dry." And when one passerby solemnly lectured him, "the flag of our country is looking at you," Lincoln shot back: "I hope it won't lose any of its eyes. — Harold Holzer

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically. — Lee Krasner

Why do you always make it sound like everything was better before I was born?"
"It's not you, Mitchell. There was just more civility back then. We still had respect for authority, I guess. This is what happens when no one trusts the people in power. — Brian K. Vaughan

Sin of any kind grieves the Holy Spirit, but that form of it which finds expression in bitterness towards another child of God causes Him special pain. — Patrick Fung

Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry. — Oliver Cromwell

They placed me on a pedestal from the day I was born! What choice did I have but to be perfect! — Mary E. Pearson

I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you. — Robin Zander

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. — Colin Powell

Wait - Miss Bramble-"
"Don't call me that!" said Azalea.
Something, perhaps hurt, flickered through Mr. Bradford's soft eyes. "Princess Bramble," he said. — Heather Dixon

You stroke a man's gun like that, you might as well be stroking his cock," God said gruffly and moved Day's palm to his already fully erect dick and pumped his hips. Day — A.E. Via

How, in this country, the wealthiest country in the world, can we allow children to go hungry? — Kirsten Gillibrand

Have faith in God but keep your powder dry. — Louis L'Amour

The United States forgot - if it ever knew - the supreme virtue of an enlightened realpolitik, which is to keep one's powder dry, intervene militarily as a last resort (rather than a first), and maintain industrial and fiscal strength at home. — Mike Lofgren

Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, 'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry. — Louis L'Amour