Quotes About Power

Sand, which didn't even have a form of it's own. Yet, not a single thing could stand against this shapeless, destructive power. The very fact that it had no form was doubtless the highest manifestation of its strenght, was it not?

Basically, there is nothing new in the behavior of monsters, for the monster himself is nothing more than an invention of his victims.

The beauty of sand, in other words, belonged to death. it was the beauty of death that ran through the magnificence of its ruins and its great power of destruction

Surgido el orden, el hombre ha adquirido el derecho de controlar el sexo y la fuerza bruta, sustituyendo a la naturaleza.

En otras palabras, la belleza de la arena pertenecía al reino de la muerte. La belleza de la muerte, que lleva en sí un gran poder de destrucción y la magnificiencia de las ruinas...

Casa aceasta era aproape moart?. Interiorul ei era pe jum?tate mîncat de tentaculele nisipului care curgea neîncetat, nisip care nici m?car nu avea o form? proprie - alta decît diametrul mediu de 1/8 mm. Åži totuÅŸi nimic nu-i putea sta împotriv? acestei forÅ£e distructive, lipsite de form?. Åži poate c? manifestarea cea mai înalt? a forÅ£ei nisipului era c? n-avea form?.

Farmecele ei erau ca o plant? carnivor?, înzestrat? în mod special cu dulcele miros al mierii. Intai va sem?na seminÅ£ele scandalului îndemnandu-l la un act p?timaÅŸ, iar apoi lanÅ£urile ÅŸantajului îl vor Å£ine legat de maini ÅŸi de picioare.

No te parece que una persona con genitales masculinos y femeninos es el símbolo supremo de poder y de belleza?

they had a power far beyond their numbers. That was also what made a girls' high school so frightening.

It is a mother's noble conceit to believe she has the power to take her child's suffering and do it for him.

England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.

Worldly institutions fail because they require power and gold to operate. Power and gold attract wicked and greedy people. Wicked and greedy people are corrupters and betrayers. Therefore, worldly institutions become corrupt and betrayed. ...

For the images of the gods are much easier to misuse for human purposes than the gods themselves. Images have no will and no desires. Statues stand for nothing but the goals of the rulers. … The word of a god is, in truth, only the word of the one who erected his statue.

Was kann gewaltiger sein als die Zerstörung aller Bücher?

There is no law stronger than that of magic. - Kian

We are meant to be." He pressed his lips to mine again; against myself, against my worry, I once again succumbed to the power of his kiss. "I know that now. Our love is stronger than magic, stronger than the laws of all Feyland. It will survive this...whatever the future brings." - Prince Kian, Silver Frost.

How can I rule anyone - when you so completely rule me?

the words were like gunpowder blasts, sparking me into thought and action.

ego —! There's nothing more powerful when it comes to destroying a man, my friend. Nothing else that would assure his swift and inglorious descent into Pathalam, the goriest underworld!

have we ever heard of any one dynasty ruling endlessly, beyond all bounds of time? Never! Even the illustrious Ishvaku clan, which boasted Lord Rama, died out. The Rettai Mandalathar rose to bring the Chalukya reign to an end. Empires and dynasties do have a habit of rising to tremendous greatness, and crashing to hollow depths; entirely natural, don't you think? There are kingdoms that have ruled for centuries, and disappeared without a trace.

If someone was going to hell, Kundavai would stop him and take him to heaven. That's one kind of power. But do you know what Nandini would do? It must be said that her power goes a step further. She would convince him that hell is heaven, and make him jump happily into hell!

Religious leaders should keep to religion. If they interfere in politics, it spells doom for religion as well as for the kingdom.

Prince Rajadithan[8]

Women, it seemed, were capable not only of significant acts of treason, but of executing them more deftly than men.