Quotes About Power

749Aurum potestas est

I'll make up for my age with a really big gun.

The new shell has already grown, and Shelly will get rid of the old one by igniting a layer of methane cells and blasting it off." 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.

Root nodded, twisting a thick cigar into the hole beneath his nose.

Right, enough talk. I think it's time Mister Vassikin was introduced to my friend, Mister Fist.

Ik geef je twee woorden. Heb je zin om een gokje te wagen hoe die luiden?' Holly wist het meteen. Ze vóélde het gewoon. 'Artemis Fowl,' fluisterde. 'Precies,' bevestigde Vinyáya. 'Artemis Fowl.

It tickled Vern some to imagine the worldwide shit storm that would follow an event like that. The humans would straight-up crap themselves. Washington would be terrified of an impending dragon takeover. No stone would be left unturned, that was for sure.

Jon Spiro might have stuff that the military didn't have, but Artemis Fowl had stuff that humans had never seen.

Successful negotiations are invariably conducted from a position of power, or at least the perception of power. Strolling into a meeting wearing a comfortable robe and smelling of incense, with a sincere desire to iron out difficulties, is, perversely, a surefire way to get everyone killed.

Humm humm haa. Rahmumm humm haa,' chantte Opal ter afronding. 'Vrede in mij, verdraagzaamheid om mij heen, vergeving op mijn pad. Goed Mervall, laat maar zien waar die smerige mens zit, zodat ik hem zijn eigen organen kan laten opvreten.

Sometimes Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker was thrown out of 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.

I am swimming with sharks and I am prepared to become one of them.

Selbstvertrauen ist nichts anderes als Unwissenheit. Wenn man sich stark fühlt, dann nur, weil es etwas gibt, das man nicht weiß.

The Bible, however, does present a single picture, complex though it is, of at least one human life: the "image of God" that is granted in the creation of Adam and then presented as the created divine power itself, the Son of God, Jesus the Christ.

No te dejes apartar de tu deber por cualquier reflexión vana que de ti pueda hacer el mundo necio, porque en tu poder no están sus censuras, y, por consiguiente, no deben importarte nada

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

Your happiness depends on three things, all of which are within your power: your will, your ideas concerning the events in which you are involved, and the use you make of your ideas.

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do not wish to have, or avoid, things that other people control, because then you must serve as their slave.

Here are thieves and robbers and tribunals: and they that are called tyrants, who deem that they have after a fashion power over us, because of the miserable body and what appertains to it. Let us show them that they have power over none.

No one can steal your peace of mind unless you let them.

Let your will to avoid have no concern with what is not in man's power; direct it only to things in man's power that are contrary to nature.

If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both played a poor figure in that, and neglected one that is within your powers.

Finally, when he crowns it off by becoming a senator, then he becomes a slave in fine company, then he experiences the poshest and most prestigious form of enslavement.