Quotes About Power

Money", he muttered, "opens all doors.

Begone from this body!' bellowed Scharley. 'You catamite fucked in the arse!

Victory should look thus: the defeated are compelled to buy goods manufactured by the victors. Why, they do it willingly, because the victors' goods are better and cheaper. The victors' currency is stronger than the currency of the defeated, and the vanquished trust it much more than their own. Do you understand me, Baron Fitz-Oesterlen? Are you beginning slowly to differentiate the victors from the vanquished? Do you comprehend whom woe actually betides?

Don't you think"—he smiled—"that my lack of faith makes such a trance pointless?" "...Because it would be the first proof I've ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.

Tak tys vidÄ›l, co ta tvoje zr?da dokáže. VíÅ¡ ty ale, co dokážu já? Znám takové seknutí, po kterém zasaženému z?stane jedna líc a p?lka ?elisti. M?že to pÃ…â"¢ežít, jenže si pak už, mimo jiné, nezahraje na flétnu.

Why have you gone so red, crimson as a poppy? You wanted to know, didn't you? So you've got the honest truth and faithful history of a world where he who shatters the skulls of others most efficiently and swells women's bellies fastest reigns. And it's just as hard to compete with you people in murdering as it is in screwing—

If the song says they were in love," replied the wizard, "then that's what happened, and their love will endure down the ages. Such is the power of poetry.

La magia è Caos, Arte e Scienza. È maledizione, benedizione e progresso. Tutto dipende da chi si serve della magia, come e con quale scopo. Ma la magia è ovunque. Ovunque intorno a noi. Facilmente accessibile. Basta allungare la mano.

So you've got the honest truth and faithful history of a world where he who shatters the skulls of others most efficiently and swells women's bellies fastest, reigns.

Peace talks are a market. A country fair. So that some people can be bought, others must be sold. Thus the world runs its course. The point is not to pay too high a price . . .' 'And not to sell oneself too cheaply,' finished the elf, without raising his head.

Though man can bend rods of steel, women will always bring him to heel.

In una bocca chiusa, bada bene alle mie parole, non può volare nessuna mosca della merda.

Tu ne signifie rien. Tu n'es qu'une minuscule mite qu'on peut réduire en poussière entre ses doigts mais qui, si on la laisse faire, peut faire un trou dans un tissu précieux. Un grain de poivre insignifiant, mais qui, si on le croque par inadvertance, gâchera le mets le plus raffiné dont on aurait voulu se délecter. Voilà ce que tu es. Rien. Rien du tout.

Il seggio sul quale sedette era stato fabbricato anni prima per la regina Calanthe, e si distingueva dagli altri per l'imponente spalliera e le magnifiche decorazioni. Una tavola può anche essere rotonda, ma si deve sempre vedere chi è il personaggio più importante.

Money has no fatherland, Geralt. The merchants don't care whose rule they make their money under.

You do not dice with Destiny with impunity!

The boulder shook, vibrated, and with it the entire hill vibrated and shook.

Only Evil and Greater Evil exist and beyond them, in the shadows, lurks True Evil. True Evil, Geralt, is something you can barely imagine, even if you believe nothing can still surprise you. And sometimes True Evil seizes you by the throat and demands that you choose between it and another, slightly lesser, Evil.

Es gibt nun mal solche Bücher, die schon auf wenigen Seiten, in wenigen Sätzen eine so starke Welt evozieren, dass uns die "Fortsetzung" nicht mehr interessiert, die weitere Lektüre überflüssig oder gar unmöglich erscheint. Man hat einfach nicht mehr die Kraft dazu. Natürlich kommen wir irgendwann darauf zurück, um die nächste Dosis Rauschgift – oder Gift – zu konsumieren.

?wiat b?dzie lepszy, gdy kobiety przejm? w?adz?. Mam nadzieje, ?e daruj? nam krwaw? zemst?.

Rewolucja to nie by? ?aden Marks naprawiaj?cy ?wiat, tylko skundlony Tamerlan w pogoni za drobiem i czasomierzami.

Every single thing you do matters. You have been created as one of a kind. You have been created in order to make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.

Does adversity build character? . . . It does not. Almost all people can stand adversity of one sort or another. If you want to test a person's character, give him power.

It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.