Quotes About Powers

Long answers need long time. And long time is exactly what's vanishing.

the greatest mercy fiction gives: proof that the worst the two of them have done to each other is just another tale worth reading together, at the end of the day.

It surprises Adam, the proximity of coziness to terror.

His face clouds over with incomprehension. You would know. You'd know, if you saw a pike.

I have lightning and wind powers, Jason reminded him. Piper can turn beautiful and charm people into giving her BMWs. You're no more a freak than we are. And, hey, maybe you can fly, too. Like jump off a building and yell 'Flame on!' Leo snorted. If I did that, you would see a flaming kid falling to his death, and I would be yelling something a little stronger than 'Flame on!

And, whoa! He turned to Mr.D. Your the wine dude? No way! Mr.D turned hi eyes away from me and gave Nico a look of loathing. The wine dude? Dionysus, right? Oh, wow! I've got your figurine! My figurine. In my game, Mythomagic. And holofoil card, too! And even though you've only got like five hundred attack points and everybody thinks your the lamest god card, I totally think your powers are sweet! Ah. Mr.D seemed truly perplexed, which probably saved my life. Well, that's...gratifying.

We stepped back and looked at the king of the gods, slumped in his chair snoring, and cradling his crook like a teddy bear. I placed the war flail across his lap, hoping it might make a difference—maybe complete his powers or something. No such luck. Sick weasels, Ra muttered. Behold, Sadie said bitterly. the glorious Ra.

Ow, I muttered, because I was once the god of poetry and have great descriptive powers.

Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.

The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with manic-depressive illness. It has been a fascinating, albeit deadly, enemy and companion: I have found it to be seductively complicated, a distillation both of what is finest in our natures, and of what is most dangerous. In order to contend with it, I first had to know it in all of its moods and infinite disguises, understand its real and imagined powers.

Now I was standing in a forest grove with a witch, a half-demon, a vampire, and a shaman, planning to put an end to a nefarious plot to usurp our powers and alter the path of humankind. Talk about your conspiracy theories.

Thank God for your amazing powers of persuasion." "Yeah, if only they worked when he was really pissed. And really pissed off." "Still, you need to teach me how to do that sometime, so I can use it on my dad, get whatever I want." "Like you don't already." "Maybe. But I'm always looking for ways to fine-tune the process." He shook his head and waved me to the truck.

The puking was new. And the pain was worse. The flashing lights are a recent symptom." He opened one eye. "See, I said I get all the cool powers. Raging migraines cured by booze. I really will be that guy in a bar--

Still up for talking about your powers? What you've been feeling?" "Absolutely." Unfortunately, any discussion of my powers led to thoughts of shape-shifting, which led to thoughts of Annie, which led to worry. Worry? Hell, no. Let's call it what it really was. Outright panic.

I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

Congress constitutionally lacks general police powers.

The power of the gospel lies[...] in the powerful announcement that God is God, that Jesus is Lord, that the powers of evil have been defeated, that God's new world has begun.

Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

Principle III: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.

The world has been loaned to humanity by the universal powers of creation.

Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth

By prayer we couple the powers of heaven to our helplessness the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible possible.

Out of the quiet emerges the sheer incarnational presence of the world, a presence that seems to demand a moving internal symmetry in the one breathing and listening equal to its own breathing, listening elemental powers.