Quotes About Power

But to whom can she say this? Who will listen to her? The power she possessed even a few days ago, as the Sarkar's favourite queen, has faded.

He believes it to be so. Isn't that what truth is? The force of a person's believing seeps into those around him— into the very earth and air and water—until there's nothing else.

But in some way, they remained shadowy figures, their thoughts and motives mysterious, their emotions portrayed only when they affected the lives of the male heroes, their roles ultimately subservient to those of their fathers or husbands, brothers or sons.

I think of the power of that flimsy cloth, the veil. It helped me win a crucial battle today. I must learn how to use this unique weapon to its fullest.

When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to them and categorize them, then they become very powerful. You are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.

Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.

Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over.

James I proved a capable ruler, which ensured his assassination by nobles.

When trying to persuade a school board to endorse the program, three is the critical number, said Irvine. "If you get one person going in to the board, he is the one crazy person. He's easy to ignore. If you get two people going in, well, the crazy guy's got a buddy, so we can still ignore [them]. But if you get three, that's a committee. It's hard to ignore a committee. A committee makes recommendations; you've at least got to consider it.

Yes, this may be the hour of the witch. But the Devil? He most definitely wears breeches. The Devil can only be a man.

Fourth Doctor: You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't alter their views to fit the facts; they alter the facts to fit their views.

And you're Emma Frost -- The Hellfire Club's White Queen. I understand you call yourself something of a telepath. Well, "Your Majesty," let's see how good you really are.

almost a grown man, yet when it came to his mutant

A pound coin can go wherever it thinks it will be safest. ... It can disguise itself as power or property and there is nothing more serious than you are a girl who has neither. 12

Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted to tell her that, but this was the thing with coaching: you had to step back at exactly the moment you ached to step forward.

Come to Me and we will blow the world back together WITH INCREDIBLE NOISE AND FURY.

When you make a man ashamed, you make him dangerous.

Oh, I hope I don't teach. Because look what we did: we saved the zoo animals and the nice children, and we damned the afflicted and the blacks. You know what I do every day in that classroom? I do everything in my power to make sure those poor souls won't learn the obvious lesson.

How I would love to be a British pound. A pound is free to travel to safety, and we are free to watch it go. This is the human triumph. This is called, globalisation. A girl like me gets stopped at immigration, but a pound can leap the turnstiles, and dodge the tackles of those big men with their uniform caps, and jump straight into a waiting airport taxi. Where to, sir? Western Civilisation, my good man, and make it snappy.

disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips...

Bullets is okay. Bullets is quick.

What is the good of influence if one can only use it on strangers?

trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

I figure if those things were in God's jurisdiction, he'd do something different about them. But they aren't. Those are in our jurisdiction.