Quotes About Power

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.

Not romantic," she disagreed. "To me it would be romantic if Antony properly fell on his sword and kicked the bucket and Cleopatra escaped and lived a lovely life sailing along the Nile without him and his big ideas ruining her kingdom.

At one point during the war, the Germans built fake airfields out of wood to draw British bombers away from their real targets and to fool the allies into thinking they were strategically more powerful than they actually were. However, the British weren't fooled - and took the mickey out of the Germans by dropping wooden bombs on the decoys!

Lord of the Rings!

Her majesty is in fact Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.

compared Voldemort to a character from Chitty

The wife of Emperor Claudius once got into an argument with a local prostitute as to who could get the most clients in a single night. She donned a wig and toga and went out to walk the streets. When the emperor found out he had her executed!

The New York Times proclaimed that if the votes in South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana were certified in favor of Tilden, thus electing him over Hayes, the North—twelve years following Appomattox—would have lost the Civil War to the South: "it will be the sign of the subjugation of the nation by the rebels." The

an individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change.

I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

Valkyrietype

There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

Fear controls you.

I'm OMAC! Evacuate this section! I'm going to destroy it!

A good commander can beat the odds. A great commander can beat the gods.

Homo Sapiens and their guns.

Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!

The human mind has absolute freedom within its true nature. You can attain your freedom intuitively. Do not work for freedom, rather allow the practice itself to be liberation. When you wish to rest, move your body slowly and stand up quietly. Practice this meditation in the morning or in the evening, or at any leisure time during the day. You will soon realize that your mental burdens are dropping away one by one, and that you are gaining an intuitive power hitherto unnoticed.

Even Napoleon Bonaparte understood this when, at the end of his life, he stated, "Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit.

Nothing has taken more money or killed more people in the history of your race than religion,

equality is best when you're the one with the guns, or at least on the winning side.

It's easy to rattle the saber if the enemy's five thousand or more kilometers distant.

the true test of awesome power is the ability not to use it,