Quotes About Power

Now he was the one who was incredulous. He drew his knife from its sheath, but he was too weak to step forward, and it spilled from his hand. His sword remained useless at his side. He looked back at me in disbelief and slid to the ground, his face twisted in pain. I walked closer and stood over him, kicking his knife away. "You were wrong, Komizar. It's much easier to kill a man than a horse.

as a child she thought if she could just pull away the fence they would turn back into the beautiful horses they really were and escape to the old plains. she had hope in that power

Sometimes the smallest animal inflicts the greatest pain.

My anger spiked. I should have stabbed the Komizar again. Carved him up like a holiday goose, then brought his head back skewered on a sword and showed it to the crowds as proof that I had no love for the tyrant.

Rahtan, Ten, Shadowmaker, no title you hold is going to make me change my mind on this one,' he had growled to me under his breath as we got our gear together. 'And only today does an ambassador trump a Patrei,' he added, and then kissed me, long and hard. 'We'll see about that, pretty boy,' I whispered back to him.

All ways belong to the world. What is magic but what we don't yet understand? Like the sign of the vine and lion you carry?

Sobald wir Angst davor haben, uns für etwas einzusetzen, haben Gewalt und Willkür schon gewonnen.

If ever there were three mismatched riders, it was us-the crown prince of Dalbreck, the Assassin of Venda, and the fugitive princess of Morrighan. Sons and Daughter of three kingdoms each bent on the domination of the other two.

No one disobeyed his commands. He could silence the devil with a whisper.

Because power, I had learned, could be just as seductive as a warm loaf of bread.

For a few minutes, a wish put a sword in my hand and gave me power over the grimness of our world.

Nezahazuj jeden druh síly pro jiný.

I have been afraid of you, Mr. Robert Audley," she thought, "but perhaps the time may come in which you will have cause to be afraid of me.

That he will haunt the footsteps of his enemy after death is the one revenge which a dying man can promise himself; and if men had power thus to avenge themselves the earth would be peopled with phantoms.

For you see Miss Lucy Graham was blessed with that magic power of fascination by which a woman can charm with a word or intoxicate with a smile

The poor stole what they could from the rich, and the rich stole what they could from the working poor - one act called crime, the other, industry

Said Simone de Beauvoir in her groundbreaking book The Second Sex , "Just as in America there is no Negro problem but rather a white problem; just as 'anti-Semitism is not a Jewish problem; it is our problem'; so the women problem has always been a man's problem. . . . Men have always held the lot of women in their hands; and they have determined what it should be, not according to her interest, but rather with regard to their own projects, their fears, and their needs.

He realized what had been disturbing him about her. With other women whom he had been with in similar situations, he had experienced a relaxing sense of emptiness within them that had made it easy for him to get inside them and, once there, smear himself all over their innermost territory until it was no longer theirs but his.

All the Jane Austen in the library cannot wash the Queens from this little hand.

God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

Christopher admitted his power but it was precisely the kind of power that he was most incapable of admiring. It was an irony of which he was conscious that he continued to enjoy its benefactions.

St. Justin Martyr wrote, "Jesus was born by the will of God the Father for the salvation of believers and the destruction of demons. And

Een dolk en een masker,' fluisterde Lucien. 'Over een paar maanden zul je nog gevaarlijker zijn dan je nu al bent.

Maar als jullie genootschap mij kan helpen mijn titel en mijn troon te houden, weet ik wél dat ikzelf alles op alles zal zetten om mijn neef Fabrizio ervan te weerhouden de plannen van zijn vader uit te voeren. - Lucia