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Quotes About Power

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
~ Emmet Fox
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer: no disease that love will not heal: no door that enough love will not open...It makes no difference how deep set the trouble: how hopeless the outlook: how muddled the tangle: how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world...
~ Emmet Fox
Prayer does change things.
~ Emmet Fox
suddenly, was the roaring sea
~ Enid Blyton
I bet, said Mulch, that you would set the world on fire just to watch it burn. Opal tapped the suggestion into a small electronic notepad on her pocket computer. Thanks for that. Now, tell me everything.
~ Eoin Colfer
Listen to me, convict. I have not traveled all this way to listen to your war stories. So shut your trap before I shut it for you. Commander Julius Root
~ Eoin Colfer
Together we will be unstoppable.
~ Eoin Colfer
Of course. Opal is toying with our emotions for her own gratification. Nothing more. She wishes to place herself in a position of power, emotionally.
~ Eoin Colfer
gold is power-artemis fowl I liked the artemis fowl series because its about a boy genius
~ Eoin Colfer
aurum est potestas
~ Eoin Colfer
The trick to negotiation was to hold all the cards going in and, even if you didn't, to try to look as though you did.
~ Eoin Colfer
Good man, Foaly." He grinned. "Hit that backstabber where it hurts, right in the ambition.
~ Eoin Colfer
There's nothing more dangerous than a short guy with something to prove.
~ Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl had devised a plan to restore his family's fortune. A plan that could topple civilizations and plunge the planet into a cross-species war. He was twelve years old at the time…
~ Eoin Colfer
Der Trick bei Verhandlungen bestand darin, von Anfang an alle Karten in der Hand zu haben oder zumindest so auszusehen, als ob dem so wäre.
~ Eoin Colfer
Sometimes, Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker would be thrown out a high window and that was the end of him. These days, if you threw someone out of a window, they'd phone their lawyer on the way down.
~ Eoin Colfer
I often think I should just abandon the whole thing. I really do. Time travel could be a gift to humanity. Whoever controls it could do some real good for mankind. But you have to ask yourself, with humanity's track record, is that likely? - Professor Charles Smart
~ Eoin Colfer
Holly wanted to be sure she understood what was being said. "So you're saying that Shelly is going to light a fart?" "No, Shelly is going to light the fart. He has stored enough methane to power Haven for a year. There hasn't been a fart like this since the last dwarf tribal gathering.
~ Eoin Colfer
Together we will be unstoppable. Your friend and benefactor, Artemis Fowl II
~ Eoin Colfer
Maybe I'm just gonna kill you, says Mike, peeved at being predictable. You ever think of that? No, Mike. Because if you wanted me dead, then four or five of your guys would be in the hospital and I'd have a flesh wound. Maybe.
~ Eoin Colfer
But always among the humans, there are those individuals who would control all they see and are threatened by that which they do not understand.
~ Eoin Colfer
According to the Book, they had once been equipped with wings of their own, but evolution had stripped them of this power. All but the sprites. One school of thought believed that the People were descended from airborne dinosaurs. Possibly pterodactyls. Much of the upper-body skeletal structure was the same. This theory would certainly explain the tiny nub of bone on each shoulder blade.
~ Eoin Colfer
Two dozen controlled charges detonated in their chambers, driving two dozen alloy cylinders out of their mounts at over a thousand miles per hour. Upon impact, each bar pulverized the contact area plus the surrounding fifteen centimeters, effectively blowing the door off its damn hinges. As the captain would say.
~ Eoin Colfer
Spider-Man's Uncle Ben said it better: With great power comes great responsibility.
~ Eoin Colfer