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Quotes About Dominance

It's just nature," I point out, wiping my lab bench, the sweet smell of the ethanol solvent. "Put animals in a small, closed space, and the one with the sharpest nails, the pointiest teeth wins." He gins. "Or maybe it's just like musical chairs?" It's a luxury to view it so lightly. But I nod. It's best never to let them see your teeth.
~ Megan Abbott
But this thing, this desire to be bossed around, dominated—such a cliché. Such an old, dusty woman thing she'd never understand. She'd never felt it herself.
~ Megan Abbott
It was all about control, in the end, and I had it.
~ Megan Hart
my voice firm as I took charge. Keeping the surface polished.
~ Megan Hart
History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate.
~ Unknown
Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Men like the kings and the queens because men are weak! No strong man accepts any king or queen!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
No sheep can be a king in the empire of wolves, but any wolf can be an emperor in the kingdom of sheeps! Paw is the key to the throne.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
There can be no real fight between a tiger and a chicken; between the love and the man; between the strong and the weak!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Biology always beats will power.
~ Mehmet Oz
Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.
~ Meir Kahane
Safe wasn't quite what appealed to her right then. Safe wasn't how she felt. Invincible, in control, powerful- those words felt closer to true.
~ Melissa Marr
Her hand shot to the front of his breeches, making claws of her fingers and trapping his genitals in a tight grip. He froze. As if testing, she hefted the firm weight she found. Heavy, but so very delicate. She bared her teeth. "And even in the dark, now I'll know that I'm ripping off the right cods." His eyes narrowed, and the hot interest she saw in his gaze sent shivers skittering down her spine. That wasn't just business now. She tightened her grip.
~ Meljean Brook
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit, because their strength is not adequate to resist.
~ Mencius
Phoo," Zoltan said to me. "Legal system. Police. All playground stuff humans invented to amuse themselves. It's got nothing to do with real power.
~ Unknown
As nossas estradas já tiveram a timidez dos rios e a suavidade das mulheres. E pediam licença antes de nascer. Agora, as estradas tomam posse da paisagem e estendem as suas grandes pernas sobre o Tempo, como fazem os donos do mundo.
~ Mia Couto
Até saíra num jornal da capital que aquilo era abuso do poder. Jonas ria-se: ele não abusava; os outros é que não detinham poderes nenhuns. E repetia o ditado: cabrito come onde está amarrado.
~ Mia Couto
Emperors hunger for land, and their soldiers are mouths that devour nations.
~ Mia Couto
Um exército de ovelhas liderado por um leão é capaz de derrotar um exército de leões liderado por uma ovelha.
~ Mia Couto
You don't just want to beat a team. You want to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see your face again.
~ Mia Hamm
neocolonization.
~ Unknown
The world is always ruled by a maniac. - Baba Yaga
~ Michael Buckley
Even the simplest of God's animals argue and fret over position and authority… asserting, sometimes with force, just who deserves what. The difference is, of course, that the wars of the chickens won't ever break the world.
~ Unknown
Power is the ability to coerce others to do what they would not otherwise do.
~ Unknown