Quotes About Power

Maar hier staan Klipman, hy't niks oorgekom van dit nie. En hierie man van my, dink ek terwyl ek grot toe loop, is 'n annerlike man, want vuur en klip is nie owerste oor hom nie, nee. Dis annersom. Hy is die owerste oor vuur en klip, ahê". Klipman se arm is nog steeds om my, hy hou my nog allie tyd vas. Sal nie weer teensukkel teen hom nie, dink ek. Hy't my nou mooi saggebak. Ek is nou 'n gaar skilpadjie, hy kan my maar afdop.

I don't like the eyes. You get so tired, don't you? Of being looked at. Maybe some women feel flattered, but I've always felt the moment a man's eyes settle on me, he's halfway to feeling he can do anything.

She was trying to decide to regard the black flies as a good symptom of the liveliness of the North, a sign that nature will never capitulate, that man is red in tooth and claw but there is something that cannot be controlled by him, when a critter no larger than a fruitfly tore a hunk out of her shin through her trousers.

The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.

In politics, there are no friends.

The power of thought able to search the Universe for truth is a fragile equilibrium between secretions of a few vital glands.

The rich is not fit to rule, unless he is also rich in soul, in wisdom.

Rules? Ixion is supposed to be free of rules, yet it seems as strict as Grave in its own way and more...more dangerous.

Can you really change anything, Joel?

The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

The power of the visibleis the invisible.

O to be a dragon,a symbol of the power of Heaven—of silkwormsize or immense; at times invisible.Felicitous phenomenon!

repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

Who rides on a tiger can never dismount; asleep on an elephant, that is repose.

the power of relinquishing what one would keep; that is freedom. Become dinosaur- skulled, quilled or salamander-wooled, more ironshod and javelin-dressed than a hedgehog battalion of steel, but be dull. Don't be envied or armed with a measuring rod.

The pulse of intention does not move so that one Can see it, and moral machinery is not labelled, but The future of time is determined by the power of volition.

The power of the visible is the invisible; as even where no tree of freedom grows, so-called brute courage knows.

Like strangler figs choking a banyan, not an explorer, no imperialist, not one of us, in taking what we pleased—in colonizing as the saying is—has been a synonym for mercy.

It has memory's ear that can hear without having to hear. Like the gyroscope's fall, truly unequivocal because trued by regnant certainty, it is a power of strong enchantment. It is like the dove- neck animated by sun; it is memory's eye; it's conscientious inconsistency.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. The world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

La revolución beneficia al pobre, al ignorante, al que toda su vida ha sido esclavo, a los infelices que ni siquiera saben que si lo son es porque el rico convierte en oro las lágrimas, el sudor y la sangre de los pobres. || The revolution benefits the poor, the ignorant, who all his life has been a slave, the unfortunate who do not know if they are is because the rich becomes the tears, sweat and blood of the poor in gold.