Quotes About Power

doing just what her father hated most—showing how her pretended insolence, which he thought real, had more power over Heathcliff than his kindness. How the boy would do her bidding in anything, and his only when it suited his own inclination.

I warn you to refrain from provoking me, or I'll ask your abduction as a special favour.

She does not know what she says. Will you ruin her, because she has not wit to help herself? Get up! You could be free instantly. That is the most diabolical deed that ever you did. We are all done for—master, mistress, and servant.

I brought him down one evening and just set him in a chair, and never touched him afterwards. In two hours, I called Joseph to carry him up again; and, since then, my presence is as potent on his nerves as a ghost; and I fancy he sees me often, though I am not near.

Pero la traición y la violencia son armas de dos filos que pueden volverse contra quien las empuña más que contra el enemigo.

If you strike me, Hareton will strike you! So you may as well sit down.

Some say once a word is said it's dead. I say it just begins to live that day.

Você pode lutar, por amor, com esse diabo o tempo que quiser; quando a hora chegar, nem todos os santos do céu terão poder para salvá-lo!

Quanto mais se contorcem os vermes, mais vontade eu sinto de esmagá-los! É uma compulsão moral; e esmago-os cada vez com mais força, à medida que a dor aumenta.

She never had power to conceal her passion, it always set her whole complexion in a blaze.

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them.

Education is the biggest threat to authoritarianism.

in this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.

A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky -

I took my Power in my Hand -- And went against the World -- 'Twas not so much as David -- had -- But I -- was twice as bold -- I aimed by Pebble -- but Myself Was all the one that fell -- Was it Goliath -- was too large -- Or was myself -- too small?

Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -

You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.

Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.

Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The Frost beheads it at its play -- In accidental power -- The blonde Assassin passes on -- The Sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another Day For an Approving God.

My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away -

The Ocean's Heart too Smooth - too Blue - To break for you.

I can wade grief, Whole pools of it, I 'm used to that. But the least push of joy Breaks up my feet, And I tip—drunken. Let no pebble smile, 'T was the new liquor,— That was all! Power is only pain, Stranded, through discipline, Till weights will hang. Give balm to giants, And they 'll wilt, like men. Give Himmaleh, They 'll carry him!

I took my power in my hand. And went against the world; 'T was not so much as David had, But I was twice as bold. I aimed my pebble, but myself Was all the one that fell. Was it Goliath was too large, Or only I too small?

Estranged from Beauty—none can be— For Beauty is Infinity— And power to be finite ceased Before Identity was leased.