Quotes About Power

Las personas pueden rechazar nuestro amor y nuestro mensaje, pero no pueden hacer nada contra nuestras oraciones.

The dead were legion and the gods had their own secret agenda.

Secrets had the power to kill a marriage

i will be the hunter, not the hunted. diana, not the stag. the arrow, not the bow.

Police weren't like vampires, they didn't wait to be invited in.

Didn't you hear, Jackson?" Julia said. "The class war's over. Everyone lost.")

Of course, the Führer promised a lot of things. It was what had got him where he was today.

So, what do they pay you for...exactly? Slapped around. Tied up. Beaten. Given orders, made to do things. What kind of things? You know. No, I can't even begin to imagine. Lick my boots, crawl on floor, eat like dog. Nothing useful, then, like hoovering?

She placed a protective hand on her bag. It contained two envelopes stuffed with twenties -- five thousand pounds in all -- that she'd just removed from her account at Yorkshire Bank. She would like to see someone trying to snatch it from her -- she was looking forward to beating them to a pulp with her bare hands. No point in having weight, Tracy reasoned, if you weren't prepared to throw it around.

She was the deer. She was the arrow, She was the queen. She was the contradiction, She was the synthesis. Juliet ran.

Powerful men needed their women to be unchallenging, the home should not be an arena for intellectual debate.

We, in our less than divine wisdom but apparently quite divine powers, are now transforming the planet like an Olympian might have created an Ice Age, or a Titan might have thrown down an asteroid from the sky to kill off a bunch of dinosaurs. We are the gods. Our scientists have said so.

Male privilege is, in a word, violence.

It was winter, winds were stirring. The Santa Anas which come from the desert beyond the city. . . . I understood exactly what God was saying. . . . Behold, you are insignificant and flawed.

It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission?

Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. Good-by--because I love you. He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand. Perhaps Doctor Mandelet would have understood if she had seen him--but it was too late; the shore was far behind her, and her strength was gone. She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again.

There was something in her attitude, in her whole appearance when she leaned her head against the high-backed chair and spread her arms, which suggested the regal woman, the one who rules, who looks on, who stands alone.

The children appeared before her like antagonists who had overcome her; who had overpowered and sought to drag her into the soul's slavery for the rest of her days.

She perceived that her will had blazed up, stubborn and resistant. She could not at that moment have done other than denied and resisted. She wondered if her husband had ever spoken to her like that before. and if she had submitted to his command. Of course she had; she remembered that she had. But she could not realise why or how she should have yielded, feeling as she then did.

No; I only think you cruel, as I said the other day. Maybe not intentionally cruel; but you seem to be forcing me into disclosures which can result in nothing; as if you would have me bare a wound for the pleasure of looking at it, without the intention or power of healing it.

As Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award

When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.

I intended lilies, said the magician. but in the clutches of a desparate desire to do something extraordinary, I called down a greater magic and inadvertently caused you a profound harm. I will now try to undo what I have done.