Quotes About Power

Oh, for the love of God. There is no agent more agent than you. I swear you have pin-striped ties encrypted into your DNA. When you die, the coffin is going to read Property of the FBI.

Violence, the great equaliser. Cared nothing for money, class, occupation. One day, it simply found you.

There's power in humility. It's one of the toughest lessons I've had to learn.

Anol shedom Anol sheh lay konnah ve-um (shaddai)

Manhattanhenge was a reminder that there was power, order, and beauty in the natural world as well.

Fury would be her downfall, she'd been told...Fury would push her over the edge of sanity.

Something... activated... by psychic power. Do I have to explain weaponry, or can you manage that alone?' - Gabriel

that a man who can't love but desperately needs to be loved is a dangerous thing indeed.

Voyeurism was a form of control, like mental abuse, like rape, like bullying. It was nothing to do with the physicality of the action, and all to do with the feeling of power it gave the perpetrator, the balancing out of delicate ids and egos.

As an adult man now of forty-one years old I have often used this refrain to get people to do what I want them to do. I didn't know who else to turn to. It gives the person your trying to manipulate nowhere to go. Their only option is to capitulate.

She read it through just once, before pressing send and propelling it forcefully, wantonly, thoughtlessly into the universe, where it would change the course of her life in ways that she could not possibly have imagined.

He didn't wait to be formed by the universe. He shaped the universe to his will.

That knife edge of time that could end with a laugh and a hug or a broken finger ir a Chinese burn.

Adrenaline blasted a path through her tiredness.

Because Zach is a controller and she has to show him that she cannot and will not be controlled and that all the champagne and big, soft eyes and compliments and expensive fish in the world is not going to change that.

All men are weak," said Phin. "That's the whole bloody trouble with the world. Too weak to love properly. Too weak to be wrong." My breath caught at the power of this statement. I immediately knew it to be the truest thing I'd ever heard. The weakness of men lay at the root of every bad thing that had ever happened.

My breath caught at the power of this statement. I immediately knew it to be the truest thing I'd ever heard. The weakness of men lay at the root of every bad thing that had ever happened.

He was unbelievably hard. Everywhere. He was in control, infinitely stronger, and he wanted me to know it. -Ella

The right words can bind someone more effectively than chains.

Don't mistake softness for weakness. Only a strong man can be soft with a woman.

Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.

I didn't think there was any way to convince Jack that he wanted more than I had to give, that to people who'd been damaged the way I had been, fear and the will to survive would always be more powerful than attachment. I could only love in a limited way

Love was the secret behind everything...love was what made vineyards grow and filled the spaces between the stars, and fixed the ground beneath his feet. It didn't matter if you acknowledged it or not. You couldn't stop the motion of the earth or hold back the ocean tides, or break the pull of the moon. You couldn't stop the rain or pull a shade over the sun.

There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.