Quotes About Power

Y si es así, ¿qué pretendía con los fuegos artificiales? Aparte de fastidiar a Napoleón Bonaparte, lo que no parece muy inteligente. El tipo tenía mal genio, y un ejército.

Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.

I will go out again this very night with my rockets and fuses. I will blow them straight out of their comfortable beds. Blow the rooftops off their houses. Blow the black, wretched night to bits. I will not stop. For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

I have done this—made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.

Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.

Officer After leaned across the seat toward me - which, under the circumstances, made me start back. 'I'm sorry I'm not allowed to beat the shit out of him for you.

There was no way he could ever be my hero when his first words to me were a command to keep things quiet.

Hit him." "Don't make her do that," Hunter told Tommy. "She'll break her hand.

Men always do that to women when they feel threatened. They tell everybody the woman must be giving out blow jobs because there's no way she could be successful otherwise.

Keep in mind that I have seen the answer key.I know what I'm supposed to say to stop you from hitting me.

Feel the chain saw. Be the chain saw.

Why can't he be the prostitute, and I the john?

What do you write in those forms?" I asked. "Nothing. I just do this to look threatening.

I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless against me.

How do you know a gangster?" "Usually, the room goes a little quiet when he walks in.

Men said "Girls are weak" when in fact girls made them weak.

He liked the thought that his own power would one day be refined into translucence, with no memory of the blood and earth that had generated it.

If my life has taught me anything, it's that curiosity and expediency have a sneaky, inexorable power. Resisting them is easy for a minute—a hundred minutes—even a year. But not forever.

Time's a goon right? Isn't that the expression?

It was one of those views that make you feel like God for a second.

Knowledge is power, so they say, and yet any counter will tell you that merely possessing data, in itself, is neither useful nor predictive.

If wishing could make men die, there'd be nary a live one left.