Quotes About Power

More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voiceRise like a fountain for me night and day.

Man is the hunter; woman is his game.

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;Close to the sun in lonely lands,Ring'd with the azure world he stands.The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;He watches from his mountain walls,And like a thunderbolt he falls.

Bury the Great DukeWith an empire's lamentation.

My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development.

The nineteenth century exaggerated the power of the historical method, and assumed as a matter of course that every character should be studied only in its embryonic stage. Thus, for example, "Love" has been studied among the savages and latterly among the morons.

The dollar sign is exalted above the health sign," said Hassler, referring to the influence of the merchants on the supervisors' decision.73

savage and formidable Potencies lurking behind the souls of men, not evil perhaps in themselves, yet instinctively hostile to humanity as it exists.

For he felt about the whole affair the touch somewhere of a great Outer Horror - and his scattered powers had not as yet had time to collect themselves into a definite attitude of fighting self-control. ("The Wendigo")

Mountains overawe and oceans terrify, while the mystery of great forests exercises a spell peculiarly its own.

It's the willows themselves humming, because here the willows have been made symbols of the forces that are against us.

They have put it into my mind; try your hardest to prevent their putting it into yours.

Es imposible que tales potencias o seres hayan sobrevivido... hayan sobrevivido a una época infinitamente remota donde... la conciencia se manifestaba, quizá, bajo cuerpos y formas que ya hace tiempo se retiraron ante la marea de la ascendiente humanidad... formas de las que sólo la poesía y la leyenda han conservado un fugaz recuerdo con el nombre de dioses, monstruos, seres míticos de toda clase y especie...

The studies that had fascinated his mind in earlier youth returned with the power that had subdued his mind in boyhood.

He is Fright!" she said in an awed whisper. "But never talk about him again unless you can help it; he always knows when he's being talked about, and he liked it, because it gives him more power.

Y era como la vaga y desagradable idea de que sin darnos cuenta, habíamos estado bromeando con estas grandes fuerzas elementales en cuyo poder estábamos indefensos, cada hora del día y de la noche. Pues aquí, sin duda, estaban en juego poderes gigantescos, cuyo solo aspecto visual estimulaba ya la imaginación.

Glory to Man in the highest! for Man is the master of things.

By Heaven, had I the teeth of Caucasus Red-hot from Promethean agonies, And tusks more lucid than the lunar snows, On those jagged lawns of Asia, cavernous With many a dragon banquet-eyes like those Minerva made of flint to shatter Jove-- I'd hurl their hate upon thee, and myself Die in a red parabola of Fate! --Ernest Wheldrake, The Monomaniac's Tragedy

Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand.

This hand, unfriendly to tyrants,Seeks with the sword placid repose under liberty.

Only He who has the power to punish can pardon.

Tongue is a beast, if it is let loose, it devours.

Wealth is the fountain head of passions.