Quotes About Power

Love will be the downfall of God himself.

Murphy," I hissed. "Are you absolutely sure about this hair? That it belongs to Kravos?" If it didn't, the doll wouldn't do diddly to the sorcerer, unless I managed to throw it into his eye. "We're reasonably sure," she whispered, "yes." "Reasonably sure. Great." But I knelt down, and marked out the circle around me, then another around the Ken doll, and wrought my spell.

When most people lose control of their anger, someone gets hurt. Maybe someone even gets killed. When it happens to a wizard, insurance companies go broke and there's reconstruction afterward.

As I pulled into the parking lot, I reflected that odds were that not a lot of clandestine meetings involving mystical assassination, theft of arcane power, and the balance of power in the realms of the supernatural had taken place in a Wal-Mart Super Center.

Politics is the purview of scoundrels, tyrants, and fools.

I didn't follow her right away. She didn't look back. Stab. Twist. God, I love being a wizard.

The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself.

Peace cannot be bought, Aleron," he murmured to LaFortier. "History teaches that lesson. I learned it. You should have, too." LaFortier

A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.

It doesn't take much power to hurt someone, she said. It's far easier than healing the damage.

I tried to take that as a life lesson: never underestimate the little people.

I hate feeling like Han Solo in a world of Jedi. I'm supposed to be the Jedi. - Harry Dresden

Can't you, like, enhance these?" "No," Gary said flatly. "Because I don't have imaginary movie powers.

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.

I think men who lust for power are capable of almost anything.

The energy of night was far different than that of the daylight—not inherently evil, but wilder, more dangerous, more unpredictable.

Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be.

What is teaching but the art of planting and nurturing power?" Lea replied. "Mortals prattle on about lonely impulses of delight and the gift of knowledge, and think that teaching is a trade like metalsmithing or healing or telling lies on television. It is not. It is the dissemination of power unto a new generation and nothing less. For her, as for you, lessons demand real risk in order to attain their true rewards.

The best magic comes from the inside.

Now that I've got this to keep me safe off the island," I said very quietly, "what's to stop me from having Alfred drop you into a cell right this second, and solving my problems myself?" "I am," Mab said. She gave me a very small, very chill smile, and held up her finger. There was a tiny droplet of my blood upon it, scarlet against her pale skin.

You know how to use magic?" I asked. "I prefer calculus.

Sometimes, being able to use magic was so cool.

Speak, then, manling," said Mother Winter. "You have a little time left.

Wizardry aside, it's tough to beat a gun for discouraging men with baseball bats.