Quotes About Power

Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face.

Say yes, babe, or I'll spill you off over the Wall next time - got it?

the sheep] sidled up beside him and bumped him lovingly with its head. Val looked at it sadly. I am sorry, you ugly creature, he said. I have not used my magic in a long time, and I am very out of practice.

She was surprised into looking into the Beast's face. The contrasts she found there were too great: wisdom and despair, power and weakness, man and animal. These made him far more terrible than any hungry lion, any half-tamed hydra, any angry sorcerer, terrible as something that should not exist is terrible, because to recognise that it does exist shakes that faith in the foundations of the natural world which human beings must have to bear the burden of their rationality.

Your Chalice, Master, sees all things clearly, which is both her strength and her weakness.

Nothing?' said Corlath. 'I said there were two things. I have told you the first. You told us what you saw as you saw it. But this is the second thing: you spoke in the Old Tongue, what we call the Language of the Gods, that none knows any more but kings and sorcerers, and those they wish to teach it to. The language I just spoke to you, that you did not recognize- I was repeating the words you had said yourself, a moment before.

Narknon put a paw on Harry's chest and began licking her face; a hunting-cat's tongue is much harsher than a housecat's. Harry thought her skin would crumble and peel off, but she didn't have the strength to push her away.

My voice came out high and strange, and sticky with wretchedness: 'Why? I know about having to - *invite* - one of your kind.' For about six months when you're thirteen or fourteen it's every teenage girl's favourite story: because it's about finding out you have *power*.

I will do anything it is in my power to do for you, he said. Command me. A vampire, standing on the far side of my bed, wearing my kimono, telling me he'd do anything I asked. Steady, Sunshine.

strategic considerations alone did not guarantee Britain's entry into the war. There was also the economic argument against entry - could Britain afford a Continental war? - and the British fear that crushing German power, at considerable cost, would simply allow some other power, like Russia, to arise in its place.

the British Government became determined that when victory came they should be in a position to impose terms, not only on the defeated enemy, but also on their victorious allies.

Oricât de proÅŸti cârpaci am fi în ale vieÅ£ii, fiecare simte nevoia s? deÅ£in? singur controlul propriei existenÅ£e. Când cineva ne ajut?, ne irit? puterea ÅŸi superioritatea acelei persoane implicate în ajutorul dat.

Worry drains the mindof its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul

Words affect the mind in a pronounced way. Whether they are spoken or written, they are powerful influences.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Every year that I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence which will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well." —Mary Cholmondeley

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

The words you use determine the way you feel. The

Knowledge is only potential power. For the power to be manifested, it must be applied. Most people know what they should do in any given situation, or in their lives, for that matter. The problem is that they don't take daily, consistent action to apply the knowledge and realize their dreams.

The Law works in the most mysterious of ways.

John F. Kennedy once said: 'The definition of happiness is the full use of your powers, along the lines of excellence.

Neglect your power long enough and you'll eventually believe you don't have any.

Hanno rinunciato da così tanto tempo al loro potere di cambiare le cose che sono arrivati a credere che la loro mancanza di potere sia la verità.

El nivel del trabajo que ofrecéis al mundo refleja la potencia del respeto por vosotros mismos.