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Quotes About Power

Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.
~ Edward Young
Death had no lips, but it was smiling
~ Franny Billingsley
Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history.
~ Georg Buchner
But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.
~ Voltaire
Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death.
~ William Shakespeare
For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel:Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!This was the most unkindest cut of all
~ William Shakespeare
Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.
~ Horace, The Odes of Horace
Death be not proud though some have called Thee Mighty and dreadful for thou art not so.
~ John Donne
Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.
~ Johnny Rich, The Human Script
Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
One to be a murderer. One to be a Martyr. One to be a Monarch. One to go Mad
~ Marissa Meyer, Heartless
And after a while...I mean, how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die. My powers aren't a prescription you can get filled as needed.
~ Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss
He was Death, and he'd ridden in on a pale horse...
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible
Anything man can make, man can destroy.
~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett
She wielded the ultimate weapon against him, his kryptonite - her touch.
~ Zoe Forward, His Witch to Keep
Shall we take it slow this time? Maybe I'll make you beg me to let you come.""I don't beg."He laughed wholeheartedly. "We'll see about that.
~ Zoe Forward, His Witch to Keep
Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Satan will not ask you to carry a chair and sit with him, instead he will snatch the chair from your hands and dismantle your body with it.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Some of us -" She paused as she sought the words. " - don't die unless we want to. The selfish ones never do.
~ Unknown
I am Josephine Darly, and I intend to live forever.
~ Unknown
Caring is weakness, and weakness is death.
~ Unknown
I am the wind...I am death.
~ Unknown
All human things are subject to decay And when fate summons monarchs must obey.
~ John Dryden