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Quotes About Power

One should never underestimate the healing power of music.
~ Rick Riordan
I was a fight to the death, and I felt great.
~ Rick Riordan
The thing about gods is, you can't really slap them when they're acting stupid. They'll just slap you back and kill you.
~ Rick Riordan
He [Nico] nodded sleepily. 'With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.
~ Rick Riordan
Only people who have known great pain have the capacity to learn magic.
~ Rick Riordan
Not inmune to engines huh? BOO-Yah!! -Leo
~ Rick Riordan
When strength doesn't work," Zeus said, trickery might.
~ Rick Riordan
Set's storm is gathering," Amos said with a twinkle in his eyes. "Shall we drive into is?
~ Rick Riordan
Nico: With great power, comes the great need to take a nap.
~ Rick Riordan
I concentrated hard and snapped my fingers. You don't see the sword, I told the girl. It's just a ballpoint pen. She blinked. Um . . . no. It's a sword, weirdo.
~ Rick Riordan
You see gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history rather than simply read it.
~ Rick Riordan
Atlas smirked.
~ Rick Riordan
She let the fear burn inside her like fuel, making her voice even stronger.
~ Rick Riordan
SWEEP!' THe Titan grinned with delight and did a victory dance.'Sweep, sweep, sweep!
~ Rick Riordan
The Titans looked on humans the way we might look on gerbils. Some Titans thought humans were kind of cute, though they died awfully quick and didn't serve any purpose. Other Titans thought they were repulsive rodents. Some Titans didn't pay them any attention at all. As for the humans, they mostly just cowered in their caves and scurried around trying not to get stepped on.
~ Rick Riordan
I CANNOT ALLOW THIS CITY TO EXIST, Zeus rumbled. I MUST MAKE YOU AN EXAMPLE SO THAT THIS NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN. LIGHTNING INCOMING IN FIVE, FOUR, THREE...
~ Rick Riordan
They had a wonderful romantic night together. In fact it was so wonderful that at one point Zeus excused himself, took his phone into the bathroom and texted Helios, the sun god: Bro, take a few days off. I need this night to last!
~ Rick Riordan
Her face had an imperious, timeless quality that I'd learned to recognize. It meant I'm a goddess; deal with it.
~ Rick Riordan
Good idea," Percy put in. "Go burn your bears, Octavian.
~ Rick Riordan
Percy: You just hit the lord of the titans with a blue plastic hairbrush.
~ Rick Riordan
Young man, names are powerful things. You don't just go around using them for no reason.
~ Rick Riordan
Not all powers are spectacular. Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.
~ Rick Riordan
We einherjar know we are destined to die. The world will end. The big picture cannot be changed. But in the meantime, as Loki once said, we can choose to alter the details. That's how we take control of our destiny. Sometimes even Loki can be right.
~ Rick Riordan
My host needs a certain level of simplicity, the goddess continued. Percy Jackson is perfect. He is powerful, yet his mind is not overly crowded with plans and ideas. Wow, I said. Really feeling the love here.
~ Rick Riordan