Quotes About Dominance

a man who bears himself with authority will often have authority ceded to him.

She was a tigress. One did not waste snarls on such a creature. You waited until you could snap his spine with a single blow.

He would fear everyone he did not control. And the next day he would fear those he controlled even more.

Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.

Much as we resent that, it was natural that once they had achieved a military technology that was superior to our own, they would take what they wished from us.

Why be the lamb when you can be the lion?

As long as Christianity is the dominant belief system in America, we cannot afford to be biblically or theologically illiterate, regardless of our personal beliefs. (p. 8)

The women are in charge, my brother. We don't have to like it, but it's the law.

Losing control and you taking it from me are two different things, Sara. You won't ever take it from me.

Those guys are power trippers of the first order. That's why Donald Trump is the way he is. It's not the money, it's the ownership of the planet.

A weak man always seeks to hurt those lower than he

Give a low man one ounce of power and he'll throw ten thousand pounds of bricks on your head.

A weak man always seeks to hurt those lower than he is

That he had this power frightened him.

Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it.

the key was to take the initiative from the first moment, and keep it thereafter. He could be as hollow as a drum, so long as he was as loud.

Every breath you take from this moment on is by my mercy. Every bite of food you eat, by Harra's charity. By charity and mercy—such as you did not give—you shall live. Dead woman.

If it ever came down to exerting power by force, it would mean I'd already lost it.

I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.

There it is! Do it or I'll have (my mother) do it for you! How's that for a threat? Effective.

That night we danced, I marked you as mine and I made it stick. There wasn't a boy or a man on that lake that didn't know who you belonged to, and the minute there was even a whiff one of them was stepping over the line, they walked funny for a week.

He should have no further trouble from her, he thought in satisfaction. Surely by now she knew his dominance over her. She would submit as easily in all matters as she had in this one. He frowned then. She had submitted, hadn´t she?

He doesn't shit on what we claim as our own and still command that loyalty.

Get you pretty ass ready and you might as well settle yourself to it. Because you are mine." His finger pointed imperiously toward her chest. "And you will stay mine.