Quotes About Power

The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window. But unlike the piano, the tiger is designed to do this, and the impact is only the beginning.

To say a tiger is an outside animal is an understatement that is best appreciated when a tiger is inside.

Fate has al­ways been a po­tent force in Rus­sia, where, for gen­er­ations, cit­izens have had lit­tle con­trol over their own des­tinies. Fate can be a bitch, but, as Za­it­sev, Dvornik, and Onofre­cuk had dis­cov­ered, it can al­so be a tiger.

What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?

British Columbia has been described as a banana republic, only with bigger bananas

The occupation of Japan was the last immodest exercise in the colonial conceit known as "the white man's burden."2

We can prove that most Americans don't believe in pushing people around, even when we happen to be on top.

Women in the scriptures were not systematically ignored any more than the majority of men were; they simply wielded their influence in a more intimate, less visible sphere.

I AM THE LAW!

When they throw the water on the witch, she says, "Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness". That line inspired my life. I sometimes say it to myself before I go to sleep, like a prayer.

You should want to be rich at 40, at 20 you should want to kill the rich; it's the right of youth

All ideology can be embraced if the leader dresses well.

All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.

There is nothing stronger than gentleness

Nothing Is Stronger than Gentleness

I focused the power from my armor into my leg and kicked the door in. The metal and plastic fibers splintered and the hinges ripped free from the wall. "By the way, boss," HARV said. "I believe that the door was unlocked.

The persecution would cease instantly, for the commands of a Vega were made to be obeyed by all men of whatever rank.

Among all of the powers and principalities, there is none on earth so mighty as a man's unsatisfied desire.

When he is done he feels not a burden removed from his shoulders and not an easing of his load but a strange sagging sense of disappointment, as if...he has deflated something whose power might have raised him up.

The power of mindfulness is the power to examine those self-identifications and their consequences and the power to examine the views and perspectives we adopt so reflexively and automatically and then proceed to think are

We see that thoughts, when brought into and held in awareness in this way, readily lose their power to dominate and dictate our responses to life, no matter what their content and emotional charge. They then become workable rather than imprisoning. And thus, we become a bit freer in the knowing and the recognizing of them as events in the field of awareness.

To, co vypadá jako slabost, je ve skute?nosti vaÅ¡e síla. A to, co vypadá jako síla, je ?asto slabost, snaha skrýt strach. Je to jen hra nebo fasáda, aÃ…Â¥ p?sobí sebepÃ…â"¢esvÄ›d?ivÄ›ji na ostatní, nebo dokonce i na vás.

Dr. Lown's story graphically illustrates the enormous power that strongly held beliefs, which are in actuality just thoughts, can have on our health.

The power of health and wealth lies in tithing.