Quotes About Power

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.

Yela represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. Wolf speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.

You have the power to change your thoughts and your thoughts have the power to change your life.

I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.

When the afterburner lights, I haven't got 5,000 horsepower. I've got 10,000 horsepower, and possibly the biggest accident you've ever seen in your life.

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.

Money is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply idle.

The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds of the flesh is the constant duty of believers.

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.

Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

Persuasion is better than force.

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.

Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.

Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.

To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world.

World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters.

I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?