Quotes About Power

I can veil the sky itself. Just try to watch me.

And the gods would do nothing. Think of all the prayers they would get.

But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips.

A word of power." "Will you teach it to me?" "Sorcery cannot be taught. You find it yourself, or you do not.

You see?" I said, when I was finished with the tale. "Gods are ugly things." "We are not our blood," he answered. "A witch once told me that.

An oath by the River Styx would hold even Zeus himself.

Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets.

Podía transformar a un pez en pájaro, pelear con mi leona y luego echarme sobre su vientre con la melena suelta. Quería esuchar sus gritos y resuellos. ¡Me ha mirado! ¡Me voy a convertir en rana!

Las voces de los muertos tienen el poder de enloquecer a los vivos.

On her chest shone her famous aigis, leather armor fringed with golden threads. It was said to be made from the skin of a Titan that she had flayed and tanned herself.

A few of these, so few I can count them on my fingers, I let go. They did not see me as their dinner. They were pious men, honestly lost, and I would feed them and if there was a handsome one among them I might take him to my bed. It was not desire, not even its barest scrapings. It was a sort of rage, a knife I used upon myself. I did it to prove my skin was still my own.

Es un arma, un asesino. No lo olvides. Puedes usar una lanza como cayado para los paseos, pero eso no va a cambiar su naturaleza.

Je finirais par bien connaître ce type d'homme, jaloux de son maigre pouvoir, pour qui je n'étais qu'une femme.

We were like gods, at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.

The generals take the credit, of course, and indeed they provide the gold. But they are always calling you into their tent and asking for reports of what you're doing instead of letting you go do it.

I feel like I would eat the world raw.

Wie lustig, « fuhr sie fort, »dass du selbst nach so langer Zeit immer noch erwartest, dass man dich belohnt, nur weil du gehorsam warst. Ich dachte, du hättest diese Lektion im Palast unseres Vaters gelernt. Niemand war so unterwürfig und ein-faltig wie du, und trotzdem trat der mächtige Helios dich umso rascher mit Füßen, denn du kauertest ja bereits da unten.«

Our goddess of the moon is gifted with magic, with power over the dead. She could banish the dreams, if she wished.

Minos, king of Crete, son of Zeus and a mortal woman.

I see nothing but a cuckolded husband and Agamemnon's greed.

Madeline Miller

There are no bargains between lions and men

I can break a hundred youths and send their bodies back to wailing mothers. I will tear your entails and eat them for my lunch. I fixed my gaze on his. "Try," I said.

Bir kayal???n tepesindeki bir ?ahin gibi harekete haz?r oldu?umu hissediyordum. Pençelerim hala kayay? tutuyordu ama zihnim havalanm??t?.