Quotes About Power

This was both unsettling, since I'd been duped, and a little comforting in that it took away some of my feeling of guilt for my actions. Ah, the sweet power of deflecting responsibility.

Mages, unsurprisingly, loved researching new and exciting ways to explode things just as much as anyone else. I

It's somewhat disconcerting to know that my lifespan is limited by your whim — and your available mana —and not feel any fear about it.

She glanced at each of us, then back toward Patrick. "Is there someone just giving out legendary magical swords to children? Because I'm fairly certain I recognize all three of those.

Actually, she wanted my help, so she broke all my things. Women are so complicated, you know? Goddesses are no different, it seems.

He could have killed us both if he had wanted to.

That activated the Ring Formerly Known as the Ring of Derek Controlling, which

the definition of "manager" should be broadened: individual contributors who gather and disseminate know-how and information should also be seen as middle managers, because they exert great power within the organization.

Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more Successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing

Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.

There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning. (Warren Buffett, estimated 'worth' $44 billion, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, quoted in the New York Times, 26 November 2006)1

There's not a single thing on this planet —not an organism, a sea, a river or lake, and even the weather that surrounds us, that hasn't been changed by human beings. For good or bad, we're in charge of the rate at which everything changes now.

People fear what they can not understand and what they can not control.

The same words that make the horrible things come also tell the quieter things about love.

But when I was quiet...that made words too. The same words that make horrible things come also tell the quieter things about love.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.

Focus on making yourself feel excited, powerful. Imagine yourself destroying goals with ease." "You have to believe that you can achieve anything." "You can become rich, you can become strong, you can take care of your loved ones and enjoy the fact that it will be very difficult.

If you have a mind that you can't control, you're never going to be a king.

as an explosion. Imagine a stick of dynamite standing in a stationary position on a table. Nothing is moving, so the total momentum of

So a nuclear reactor is based on a nuclear chain reaction in much the same way as we have seen a nuclear bomb is also based on a nuclear chain reaction.

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.

Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.