Quotes About Power

He held up his hand, and in it was... Oh, God. The neon-pink vibrator, glowing in the dark now. It was following her, stalking her, all the way down the yellow brick road to hell.

And in the same vein," she said, "why does the word 'pussy' equate to weakness, when even the slightest flick to a guy's 'balls of steel' sends him to his knees—but vaginas can push out an entire human being?

And then she stomped on it?" "In boots, with spikes on the soles," Aidan assured him.

The tongue's the sole muscle in your body that's attached at only one end.

Wrong teaching–specifically religious doctrines–nullifies the power of the Word of God and makes it of no effect.

Avoidance is like feeding a monster that will come alive and plan a future attack, but this monster will lose power when it is brought out into the light.

I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart.

Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!

Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.

Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.

Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.

If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you've left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.

Home is where, when you go there and tell people to get out, they have to leave.

Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.

I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits.

My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.

Harry, she said quietly, I know you must be angry. I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm angry, I said. I'm a couple of steps past that point right now.

Ha-ha! Ah-hahahaha! I am wizard; hear me roar!

I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

I didn't know this before, but as it turns out, Tyrannosaurs can really haul ass.

Hell's bells. I don't call him the Fist of God as a pet name, folks.

There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear....

Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal, so fundamentally a part of our existence as human beings that its true impact upon us can be difficult to put into words. That power doesn't necessarily have anything to do with sex, either. From the time we are infants, we learn to associate the touch of a human hand with safety, with comfort, with love.