Quotes About Power

As they sat, Kathy de Bourgh smiled and said, "Now that we've both apologized within the first thirty seconds of our conversation about women and power, shall we begin?

I have been granted the terrible privilege of deciding what would have happened with no one left to contradict me. And maybe I am absolutely wrong.

And I want a woman in that seat. Whether it's Alan Dixon or Joe Biden or George Bush, I'm so tired of these idiot men getting to make up the rules for the rest of us. They're not smarter. They're not nicer. They don't have better judgment. They're just men.

And I didn't yet understand that just because you can recognize what another person wants and just because that person is older and more powerful than you are, you don't have to give it to them.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

No pervs allowed in the Oval Office," Donald said. "I didn't make the rules.

his blue eyes were intense, and

Messo di fronte al generale von Heunert e ai salmoni della Lapponia, egli stava dalla parte dei salmoni. Ma, in fondo, come tutti i tedeschi, giudici o no, obbediva ai generali. Il guaio di tutti i salmoni d'Europa è questo: che anche i tedeschi stanno dalla parte dei salmoni, ma obbediscono ai generali.

in. I was glad of the break with Rome. I never felt that it was good that our affairs should be governed by an outside power, or that the fruits of our labour should be paid to a prelate who never set foot in the country. But it seems few are willing to go thus far and no further – not even the King himself.' 'But Paul – the King is a true Catholic. No-one could be more devoted than him. He hates heresy. He is a true son of the Church.

He held the whip that and made those marks, and drawn that blood, and he was ashamed. He held the whip that could make more marks on the flesh of Nikol's back. While Nikol begged.

Fear burned through him, like a flame. Fear coursed through him, like icy water. He threw his head back and raised his dagger, to strike -- and cried out wordlessly, as if the great cry could gather all his fear together and set its swelling course behind him, to add it to his strength.

At Beriel's silence she turned around -- and fury crashed against her like a wave thrown by a storm against the rocky coast.

Beriel shone with it, like a sun, the Queen in her Kingdom. It was as if each breath she drew increased her pleasure, breathing that air. It was as if each hoof the chestnut planted onto the earth increased her strength.

What kind of a world was it where in order to be on top you had to push others under — as if you were pushing heads down underwater — and hold them there until they drowned, and then you could be on top.

Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

What has no shadow has no strength to live.

Irony is the glory of slaves.

The officer sat with his long, fine hands lying on the table, perfectly still, and all his blood seemed to be corroding. - The Prussian Officer

I have realized that my will, no matter how intelligent I am, is only another nuisance on the face of the earth, once I start exerting it. And other people's wills are even worse.

The bitch-goddess, as she is called, of Success, roamed, snarling and protective, round the half-humble, half-defiant Michaelis' heels, and intimidated Clifford completely: for he wanted to prostitute himself to the bitchgoddess, Success also, if only she would have him.

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and the power of movement, of action, in man.

y entró en esa buena sociedad de gente del gobierno que no está a la cabeza, pero que son, o pudieran ser, el verdadero poder oculto de la nación: gente que sabe de qué habla, o habla como si lo supiera.

Não podia. Hoje em dia os confins do mundo ficam a menos de cinco minutos de Charing Cross. Com o telégrafo sem fios, os confins da Terra não existem. Os reis de Daomé e os lamas do Tibete escutam Londres e Nova Iorque.

And as he loped slowly past her, on his flexible hips, it seemed to her still that he was stronger than she was. Of all the men she had ever seen, this one was the only one who was stronger than she was, in her own kind of strength, her own kind of understanding.