Quotes About Power

The sound of the rampaging Missouri,Bending the reeds again and again—something inside usLike a ghost train in the RockiesAbout to be buried in snow!Its long hootMaking the owl in the Douglas fir turn his head.

Some men think the Earth is round, others think it flat; it is a matter capable of question. But, if it is flat, will the King's command make it round? And, if it is round, will the King's command flatten it?

Some men think the Earth is round, others think it flat; it is a matter capable of question. But if it is flat, will the King's command make it round? And if it is round, will the King's command flatten it? No, I will not sign.

THE KING: Not the Holbein Henry, but a much younger man, clean-shaven, bright-eyed, graceful and athletic. The Golden Hope of the New Learning throughout Europe. Only the levity with which he handles his absolute power foreshadows his future corruption.

Assertion, even self-assertion, does not invariably bespeak an urge to annihilate the opposition or to wield coercive power.

Wall Street criminality is growing by leaps. There are no bounds.

Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.

Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way. Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.

It is in its pure form that an art hits hard.

One recognizes the true by its efficacy, by its power.

Love is energy of life.

Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!

Jove strikes the Titans down Not when they set about their mountain-piling But when another rock would crown the work.

What so wild as words are?

I gave commands;Then all smiles stopped together.

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,Looking as if she were alive.

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

We find great things are made of little things,And little things go lessening till at lastComes God behind them.

In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.

When I started to believe that maybe a Higher Power, a Universal Force, existed which was Truly All-Powerful and Unconditionally Loving then life started to become a lot easier and more enjoyable. Then I could start to see that the "accidents" and "coincidences" are really miracles. That the "mistakes" are really opportunities for growth.

Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.

Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r,Thou's met me in an evil hour;For I maun crush amang the stoureThy slender stem:To spare thee now is past my pow'r,Thou bonie gem.