Quotes About Power

I am the One, the all and the only. I live in the Pendleton as surely as I live everywhere. I am the Pendleton's history and its destiny. The building is my place of conception, my monument, my killing ground.

Because, I can feel it coming, something powerful, the way you feel the air taking on weight when a thunderstorm is coming.

She distrusts those who prefer power to money

rotten as the minds of those who believe they can learn all that exists to be known and can control anything they wish to control, who believe that it is their right, above the rights of all other men and women, to shape the destinies of their neighbors, cities, nations, and the Earth entire, according to their whims.

Parker possesses the resources to acquire whatever he wants

The excessive passion of your yearning could blind you to the mistakes you made, so that in the end, you were defeated by the sheer power of your need.

In addition to the scientists at Springville, twenty-two hundred Refine employees had answered to him. Now he has authority over no one. He had power, position, respect, twenty Tom Ford suits that he wore with colorful sneakers. All that is gone. He is alone. Only now does he realize that the worst of all miseries to afflict the human heart is loneliness. Lee Shacket has never been good at relationships. He's

highly successful history of bribing public officials

power past the Hummer and regain the roadway, we were forced counterclockwise. When

His wealth and connections open a door

maybe I shouldn't have regarded the ISA as omniscient and omnipresent.

The maze of Ronny Jessup's dark erotic dreams of absolute power was also the labyrinth of David Thorne's nightmares.

When they believe your lie is the truth, when they fail to see that the freedom you claim to champion is in fact slavery disguised, they'll live by whatever rules you imply without realizing they're being obedient.

Carson didn't believe either man was what he presented himself to be. Frawley looked like a fixer, a slick operator who had friends in all the highest places and knew how to take care of any screwup they committed.

To Carson, Hayden Eckman said, "The AG called me himself, a few hours ago. He made a persuasive argument.

whoever solved the knot was destined to rule all of Asia, he simply sliced it with his sword.

To justify murdering tens of millions, Stalin is reputed to have said, "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

And if words existed before matter of any kind, before suns and worlds and seas and human beings and fortune-tellers…well, then an alphabet must have existed even earlier, so that words could be formed. Therefore letters are more fundamental and powerful than anything else a diviner could use to force the secrets of the universe into view.

The cold tide of evil rises relentlessly. Although the dikes that resist it can be built higher, the power of such an insistent tide is greater even than the power of a deep sea of water; though perhaps nothing can stand against Evil forever, there is at least a kind of honor in undertaking the effort to restrain the ultimate flood as long as possible.

He is enchanted by the power of the law and by the infinite ways that the system can be manipulated to achieve any desired end.

An outboard racer. The drive shaft pulled up and secured.

Ganesh held up one hand. "There's more, and it suggests that tens of thousands of people, focused on the same expectation, can unwittingly affect reality and make that expectation come to pass.

The writer that you are, I guess you're used to being a kind of dictator, telling the characters in your stories what to do.

The only virtue is vice, and the acquisition of power justifies all things.