Quotes About Power

Skye set her glass down. "Don't you dare rewrite history. What do you think it was like for me? Son after son—and every single one of you preferred my father.

but at the end of the day, even if you thought that you'd manipulated our grandfather into this, I guarantee that he'd be the one manipulating you.

He didn't move, didn't blink, wasn't physically aggressive in any way, but he bled power, and he knew it.

He turned to me and extended a hand. "Since Lillian seems to have forgotten her manners, I suppose it's up to the two of us to introduce ourselves. I'm David Ames. And you are, young lady?" If my grandmother could have incinerated him with the power of her mind, I think she would have. "Right now," I replied, "I'm someone who is very concerned for your longevity.

You've really never heard of this guy?" Thea asked. "He's rich and powerful and hates your family's guts, and you've never even heard his name?" "You know as well as I do," Grayson replied, "that there are different kinds of rich.

Better the devil you know than the one you don't—or is it? Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. All that glitters is not gold. Nothing is certain but death and taxes. There but for the grace of God go I.

On the surface," he told me, "it appears that the letter outlines what we already know: My grandfather died and left everything to the devil he didn't know, thereby reversing the fortune of many. Why? Because power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Tobias Hawthorne. Even dead, he was larger than life.

The world bent to the will of Grayson Hawthorne. What money couldn't buy him, those eyes probably did.

No matter how sharp its edges, no knife could hold a candle to fang and claw.

is not your hero. He's your god.

Ik was zo sportief me maar een heel klein beetje te verkneukelen. 'Wat is het toch heerlijk om de koningin te zijn.

And that was the nice thing about being the sole client of a multi-billion-dollar law firm.

Eén gunst. Ik bepaal waar en wanneer ik die gunst wil, en er wordt niet gevraagd waarom.' Emilia lachte haar allerliefste lach... 'Deal?' Tandenknarsend schudde ik haar hand... 'Deal.

Why do I have to tell a story?" I asked. "Because if you don't tell the story, someone else will tell it for you." ? The Inheritance Games

I was starting to believe that was what our country ran on—secret upon secret upon secret.

Wie weten het nog meer?' vroeg Grayson op dat ongeïnteresseerd klinkende troonopvolgerstoontje van hem dat je de indruk gaf dat hij degene die hij de vraag stelde een gunst verleende, aangezien hij het antwoord ook met geweld uit hun gedachten had kunnen trekken.

This was what it meant to be a Hawthorne. This should probably be in a museum, but my brothers and I like to hit things with it instead.

Well then, Heiress. Game on.

She's got a gun. Eve held her weapon the way that Nash had taught me to hold mine.

Goed dan,' zei ik knarsetandend. 'Maar Drake krijgt niets.' Alisa glimlachte kort haar tanden bloot. 'Die muilkorf ik gewoon omdat ik dat leuk vind.

Let your anger light a fire that the world will never extinguish.

Pay no attention to this sledgehammer!

My grandfather told us that as you amass the kind of power and money he had-- things get broken.