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Quotes About Dominance

Get out of this office! I'll have no feelings here.
~ Charles Dickens
To name is to dominate, to categorize, to subjugate and, quite literally, to objectify
~ Charles Eisenstein
The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
~ Charles Evans Hughes
She thinks your lady-love will rule you as the moon rules the tides.
~ George Eliot, Adam Bede
In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press. That is an improvement certainly. But still it is very bad... Somebody — was it Burke? — called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time, no doubt. But at the present moment it really is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three... We are dominated by Journalism.
~ Oscar Wilde, 1891
Human beings can easily destroy every elephant on earth, but we are helpless against the mosquito.
~ Isaac Asimov
I have a very firm grasp on reality — I can reach out and strangle it any time.
~ Author Unknown
For 250 million years, redwood kingdoms have crowned the Pacific Coast of North America.
~ Kyle Da Silva
It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.
~ Gore Vidal
Os meninos eram uns brutos, como o pai. Quando crescessem, guardariam as reses de um patrão invisível, seriam pisados, maltratados, machucados por um soldado amarelo
~ Graciliano Ramos
Just as many Muslims believe that one day—simply due to its innate doctrinal superiority—Islam may ultimately become the religion of all mankind, so do reconstructionists believe that one day Christianity will be acknowledged by all and will thus come to dominate the world. Imposition by force is undesirable, unnecessary, and counterproductive to the longer goal; it will simply come.
~ Graham E. Fuller
The possession of such a big brain was no doubt an asset to these 'intelligent, spiritually sensitive, resourceful creatures'8 and the fossil record suggests that they were the dominant species on the planet from about 100,000 years ago until 40,000 years ago.
~ Graham Hancock
The shadows betray you, because they belong to me…
~ Greg Cox
Whoever first gains the power to impose their own view decides the issue? Isn't that the definition of barbarism?
~ Greg Egan
Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.
~ Greg Iles
My feeling is, we ran from animals for three million years. It's our time now. If a cow could eat you, it would. And it wouldn't care how comfortable your truck ride over was, either.
~ Greg Proops
If you find someone threatening, make him your own. It was like psychological cannibalism.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
He was a Tower of flesh and blood, rising above the emotional quagmire through which other men limped, thoughtless and impotent.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
Yet how could the Empire possibly have kept itself stable, using such crude creatures as humans?
~ Gregory Benford
La natura rifiutandosi clamorosamente di servire all'uomo, avendo altri fini, l'uomo sempre più sarà asservito all'uomo.
~ Guido Ceronetti
Under Cruyff, dominating the ball became the first and most important rule. 'If you have the ball, the opposition doesn't have it and can't attack you,' Cruyff would repeat daily. So the job became finding the players who could keep possession and also doing a lot of positional work in training.
~ Guillem Balagué
He'd apply his three basic rules, none of which related to what people know as tiki-taka: they were, rather, intense attack, quick pressure when the ball is lost and having one more player in the midfield than your opponents.
~ Guillem Balagué
We have to be able to dominate the game, and make sure that we aren't dominated ourselves.
~ Guillem Balagué
Superiority in midfield, as predicted by Pep, was the key to the game.
~ Guillem Balagué