Quotes About Power

The mighty tell the lesser to dig in the mud and keep their own hands clean.

Some women," Dyelin murmured into her wine, "can make a fish bite by crooking a finger, Lady Birgitte. Other women have to drag their bait all over the pond.

We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder. —

Politics is a foggy mire full of snakes.

All women are Aes Sedai.

They want to own the world, but it seems you already own a people.

kneel and swear to the lord dragon, he said softly, or you will be knelt. Lord of Chaos

It is better to be the hammer than the nail.

Perrin suspected Lini was one of those women who saw her "place" as being in charge. Come to think of it, most women did. That was the way of the world, it seemed, not just the Two Rivers.

Looking a queen is not enough, her mother had told her often, but a fine mind, a keen grasp of affairs, and a brave heart will go for nothing if people do not see you as a queen.

How people see you first is what they hold hardest in their minds. It is the way of the world. You can step down from a throne, and even if you behave like a farmer in a pigsty, some part in each of them will remember that you did descend from a throne. But if they see only a young man first, a country man, they will resent him stepping up to his throne later, whatever his right, whatever his power.

A general who draws his sword has put aside his baton and become a common soldier.

One of the Prophecies says that the Stone of Tear will never fall until the People of the Dragon come to the Stone. Another says the Stone will never fall till the Sword That Cannot Be Touched is wielded by the Dragon's hand.

They have no Aes Sedai touching the True Source to protect them. Blacksmith, perhaps the walls have weakened enough for the Dark One himself to touch events. Not with a free hand, or we'd be done already, but maybe tiny shiftings in the threads. A chance turning of one corner instead of another, a chance meeting, a chance word, or what seems like chance, and they could be so far under the Shadow not even Moiraine could bring them back.

Her silence was more eloquent than any words.

I never thought swords were much use—even if you have the skill, child, there are always men who have as much, and a deal more strength

Master of the lightnings, rider on the storm, wearer of a crown of swords, spinner-out of fate. Who thinks he turns the Wheel of Time, may learn the truth too late.

she folded her arms beneath that impressive bosom.

For he shall come like the breaking dawn, and shatter the world again with his coming, and make it anew.

Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to dazzle, iron to bind.

power often grew from others deciding that you already had power, and an appearance of wealth could give that.

Mia dovienya nesodhin soende.

On a day of fire and blood, a tattered banner waved above Dumai's wells, bearing the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai. On a day of fire and blood and the one power, as prophecy had suggested, the unstained tower, broken, bent knee to the forgotten sign. The first nine Aes Sedai swore fealty to the Dragon Reborn, and the world was changed forever.

Sometimes she thought the Creator had only made men to cause trouble for women.