Quotes About Power

This is the deal, honey—" "The name's Sunny, not Honey." "It's a natural law. In every situation in life, someone has to be in charge. If it's a situation I'm a part of, then I'm the one in charge.

Your power is in your individuality, in being exactly who you area.

Through the kids, I had started to understand more about love and what it was to truly give love and receive it. I learned that there are certain things it's not okay to accept, and that was making me feel powerful and strong.

Colpa è una parola che lui usa per farmi tacere

God allows you to struggle, even though his power could prevent it, because his wise and compassionate authority knows that the benefit of your struggle far outweighs the comfort you may experience from his rescue.

The most dangerous animal on earth is man

Beauty was power, and Bethie wanted her power back.

My parents aren't cruel to them. They pay them well. It's more that they treat them like they're pets.

put his hands on Kim's shoulders, his expression was almost smug.

She would look this other Diana in the eyes and then she'd decide what she would do, how she could confront Hal without hurting some poor, blameless woman, in a world where being born female meant spending years of your life at risk, and the rest of it invisible, existing as prey or barely existing at all.

he was an ass. Her husband and Thomas' father was an ass: a fool who thought iut funny to frighten a small child, who could not resist the small, mean act of betrayal that proved him more powerful than his four-year-old son.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

This is what should be meant by people power. The power for people to choose which of the government's petty, silly, pointless laws they want to obey. And which they don't.

The Seven Years War of 1756–63 has often been considered the first 'world war'. It certainly shares its European origins with the First and Second World Wars. But it might also be considered the point at which the British recognized the extent to which their destiny lay not in Europe but elsewhere.

Authors like Martin Amis, Peter Ackroyd or Julian Barnes engage with metropolitan subject-matter, but the books that sell by the container-load are historical romances. The upper classes may have lost their political power, but they still manage to set the social tone and determine the aspirations of the ambitious.

In Germany, a gas- or coal-fired power plant that might cost $1 billion to build, but that will no longer run at full capacity because of the onslaught of renewable energies into the grid, can only pay for itself on days when there is no wind or heavy cloud cover.

Odds of violent death increase significantly when there are weapons around. The more powerful the weapon, the more detached people become from the killing, the more people that die.

Obama once reportedly told his aides, "[It] turns out I'm really good at killing people.

How could a preacher in rural Yemen pose a threat to the most powerful nation on earth? he wondered.

The Looming Tower.

It's beautiful. Not a lie. But tornados were beautiful too.

Others Act Upon Me, Therefore I Am