Quotes About Power

So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Hope has a great power. Hope can be the only driving force of life. When we face failures, hope can be medicine that can heal the wounds caused by it in our mind and make us to go live the life and attains success in life..

In the stories, the gods have the power to delay the moon's course if they wish, to spin a single night the length of many.

Great gods smell fear like sharks smell blood, and they will devour you for it just the same.

Odysseus shrugged. "There are many ways to start a war. I always think raiding makes a good beginning. It accomplishes almost the same thing as diplomacy, but with greater profit.

current. "He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

I had understood gods could bleed, but I had never seen it. He was one of the greatest of our kind, and the drops that fell from him were golden, smearing his back with a terrible beauty.

All these gods, all these mortals who aided him. Men talk of his wiles. His true talent was in how well he could take from others.

There was always a leader. He was not the largest, and he need not be the captain, but he was the one they looked to for instruction in their cruelty. He had a cold eye and a coiling tension. Like a snake, the poets might say, but I knew snakes better by then.

You can," I said. "But you have always been cautious, Father. You know I have stood against Athena. I have walked in the blackest deeps. You cannot guess what spells I have cast, what poisons I have gathered to protect myself against you, how your power may rebound upon your head. Who knows what is in me? Will you find out?

For a hundred generations, I had walked the world drowsy and dull, idle and at ease. I left no prints, I did no deeds. Even those who had loved me a little did not care to stay. Then I learned that I could bend the world to my will, as a bow is bent for an arrow. I would have done that toil a thousand times to keep such power in my hands. I thought: this is how Zeus felt when he first lifted the thunderbolt.

Witchcraft transforms the world. He wanted only to join in.

You can teach a viper to eat from your hands, but you cannot take away how much it likes to bite P.85

Men will hear of your skill, and they will wish for you to fight their wars." He paused. "What will you answer?" "I do not know," Achilles said. "That is an answer for now. It will not be good enough later," Chiron said.

Even in her pain, she commanded the room, drawing all the light to herself, leeching the world around her pale as mushrooms.

Don't you know?" she had said. "The gods love their monsters.

would not be ground into the earth. You loathed them as I did. I think it is where our power comes from.

She hated our family? She had always seemed to me their distillation, a glittering monument to our blood's vain cruelty. Yet it was true what she said: nymphs were allowed to work only through the power of others. They could expect none for themselves.

You dare to threaten me?" These gods, I thought. They always say the same thing.

That word, nymph, paced out the length and breadth of our futures. In our language, it means not just goddess, but bride.

I have seen her do a thousand such tricks a thousand times. My father always fell for them. He believed the world's natural order was to please him.

Witchcraft is nothing but such drudgery. Each herb must be found in its den, harvested at its time, grubbed up from the dirt, culled and stripped, washed and prepared. It must be handled this way, then that, to find out where its power lies. Day upon patient day, you must throw out your errors and begin again. So why did I not mind? Why did none of us mind?

I did not walk as a mortal walks, but as a god, and the miles fell away beneath my feet.

I could feel his power reaching for my secrets. In the old days I would have rushed forth with a brimming cup of answers, to give him all he wanted. But I was not the same as I had been. I owed him nothing. He would have of me only what I wanted to give.