Quotes About Power

Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it must. It is not our judgment that leads us; it is neither the advantages nor the faults which we discover, that make us abandon ourselves, or that repel us. It is a sweet, soft, enigmatic power that drives us on. We cease to think, to feel, to will; we let ourselves be carried away by it, and ask not whither?

So," Wanda cried, "a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?

I can easily imagine belonging to one man for my entire life, but he would have to be a whole man, a man who would dominate me, who would subjugate me by his inate strength. And every man—I know this very well—as soon as he falls in love becomes weak, pliable, ridiculous. He puts himself into the woman's hands, kneels down before her. The only man whom I could love permanently would be he before whom I should have to kneel.

Dangerous forces lie within me. You awaken them, and not to your advantage. You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

Woman's power lies in man's passion, and she knows how to use it, if man doesn't understand himself. He has only one choice: to be the tyrant over or the slave of woman.

Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes.

Yes, I am cruel—since you take so much delight in that word-and am I not entitled to be so? Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this modern world of ours, she wraps her sublime body in great heavy furs and warms her feet on the prostrate body of her lover. I imagine the favorite of this beautiful despot, who is whipped when his mistress grows tired of kissing him, and whose love only grows more intense the more he is trampled underfoot. I shall call the picture Venus in Furs

Never underestimate the power of fiction to tell the truth.

People who lack economic and social power often expand their physical impact on the world. -In Pursuit of Silence

I believe God wants to accomplish His work supernaturally on the face of the earth. He wants to take natural people and work supernaturally through them to bring about a mighty surge of His power, just the way He worked through Howard Carter. I challenge you to make yourself ready for Him to use you in this wonderful moment in which we live today.

In all the operations of faith recorded in the Bible, there are no failures. The three Hebrew children didn't come out of the fiery furnace scorched. Faith works. Faith succeeds. The Bible records no defeats related to faith.

Faith is the greatest power generated on the planet earth and is the number one source of unused energy.

When we have faith in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we can expect the miracle power of God to function.

If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting memory of their painful pasts. We give the monsters the last word.

It is better to be feared than loved.

Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!

The question is, which is to be master? That's all. They've a temper, some of them. Particularly verbs. Oh, they're the proudest! Adjectives, eh, you can do anything with, but not verbs however.

The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, screamed 'Off with her head! Off—' 'Nonsense!' said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was silent.

I warn you, dear child. If I lose my temper, you lose your head. Understand?

Cellad?n fikri ÅŸöyleydi: Gövdesi olmayan bir kafa kesilemezdi, zaten daha önce böyle bir ÅŸey yapmak zorunda kalmam??t? ve bu yaÅŸtan sonra da yapmaya niyeti yoktu. Kral'?n fikri de ÅŸöyleydi: Kafas? olan her ÅŸeyin kafas? kesilebilirdi ve bu konuda daha fazla saçmalaman?n anlam? yoktu. Kraliçe'nin fikri ise ÅŸöyleydi: EÄŸer bir dakika içinde bir sonuca var?lmazsa, oradaki herkesin kafas? kesilecekti.

Cuando yo uso una palabra —insistió Humpty Dumpty con un tono de voz más bien desdeñoso— quiere decir lo que yo quiero que diga..., ni más ni menos. —La cuestión —insistió Alicia— es si se puede hacer que las palabras signifiquen tantas cosas diferentes. —La cuestión —zanjó Humpty Dumpty— es saber quién es el que manda..., eso es todo.

I pictured myself the Queen of Hearts as sort of embodiment of ungovernable passion - a blind and aimless Fury