Quotes About Power

I don't mind being lord of all I survey but I don't want to have to work at it. It just wouldn't be practical.

the top head would have controlled everything and made his poor little butt-brother miserable.

lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

high heels are each big enough to bury an Egyptian in.

Whoever heard of a king who was scared of tall trees and a little bit of water?

Always give God a chance to work.

I couldn't argue. For years, that was how I did my work at R.H. Macy's: If I understood better than you did yourself why you thought or did or wanted something, then I could control you.

No one who'd actually been in the Pocket would believe the explanation, but that didn't matter. We were symbols now, no longer in control of our own stories.

gardians rule

Moon Scalding

Through the power of the Spirit humans are to be joined to the second person of the trinity in Christ, and on virtue of that attachment human lives are to be given a shape that images the first person of the trinity in something like the way the second person of the trinity images it.

After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other

In her experience, language cannot be trusted. Words are weapons to be deployed cautiously.

This is her power move: letting an alpha male keep talking and waiting patiently as he self-destructs.

A woman in power has more urgent business to attend to than her ego.

One learns from girlhood to fear the competitive energy, the ambient fury and resentment that can be aimed at powerful females. And yet at the same time, women often want or need power. The goal, then, is to take power in a way that navigates that rage or resentment; it is a little like trying to feed a dragon without getting burned.

My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.

If he pushed too often or too hard, she was very capable of, at the very least, calling her boss or her invisible partner and having Max put on ice somewhere while she went on working. The girl twelve years ago couldn't have done that, but this woman certainly could. And would.

Every man wishes to be king. Her hair snapped about her, buzzing.

The worst kind of poison for despots: truth.

May the dragon you find be well fed.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower," wrote Dylan Thomas

Fire, by its nature, both creates and destroys.