Quotes About Power

She was entirely calm, no more than a conduit for the ancient savagery that men call motherhood, who mistake its tenderness for weakness.

Faith is as powerful a force as science," he concluded, voice soft in the darkness, "—but far more dangerous." We

prejuicio social es un fuerza poderosa, pero se desarma ante la competencia, sobre todo cuando la demanda es urgente y la habilidad no abunda.

But there—poor men mun bleed for the rich man's gold, and always will, eh?

Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's the always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all powerful—because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies. And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed.

Ye mind me o' your uncle Dougal, a sionnach," she said, tilting her head to one side coquettishly. "He was older when I met him than you are now, but you've the look of him about ye, aye? Like ye'd take what ye pleased and damn anyone who stands in your way." Jamie

But I remember talking with Mr. Garrick once in London, and his reference to the playwright as a little god who directs the actions of his creations, exerting absolute control upon them. Mrs. Cowley argued with this, saying that it is delusion to assume that the creator controls his creations and that an attempt to exert such control while ignoring the true nature of those creations is doomed to failure.

The sacrifice," she said, suddenly impatient. "It gives ye a greater range. And at least a bit of control, so ye have some notion how far ye're going. How did ye get to and fro three times, without blood?

If you don't," she said sweetly, "I'll tell my father you made improper advances to me. He'll have the skin flayed off your back.

Or perhaps I should say—what England wants." He held out a glass to Grey, smiling. "For one can hardly separate your interests from those of your country, can one? In fact, I confess that you have always seemed to me to be England, John.

I suppose men can make all the laws they like," he said, "but God made hope.

Perhaps you are too young to know the power of hate and despair. Quarry's voice spoke in Grey's memory. He was not; he recognized them at once in the depths of Fraser's eyes.

My Son-in-law astutely observes that a Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

that a Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

A government derives its powers from the just consent of the governed," I quoted, nodding. "For a Committee of Safety to have any legitimacy, there needs to be an obvious threat to the public safety. Clever of the Browns to have reasoned that out." He gave me a look, one auburn brow raised. "Who said that? The consent of the governed." "Thomas Jefferson," I replied, feeling

Drunk wi' power," he remarked disapprovingly to the ceiling. "Verra unwomanly attitude, that.

INCIPIENT THUNDER

She had seen Brianna's face for a moment in the light; white as paper and hard as bone, with the eyes black holes. Her gentle, kindly mistress had vanished like smoke, taken over by a deamhan, a she-devil. Lizzie was a town lass, born long after Culloden. She had never seen the wild clansmen of the glens, or a Highlander in the grip of blood fury—but she'd heard the auld stories, and now she knew them true. A person who looked like that might do anything at all. She

as strong as lust, was the desire simply to be taken, to have him master me, quell my doubts in a moment of rough usage, take me hard and swiftly enough to make me forget myself.

Not all who are born to it have the courage to take hold of the power that is their right.

You—shoot him, can't you?" Jamie shrugged and, lifting the rifle to

Well, I suppose men can make all the laws they like," he said, "but God made hope.

You can't stop me, so step aside.

Well, I asked him who would start the war first.