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Quotes About Dominion

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty. The
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
It's a free country, sir; the man's mine, and I do what I please with him,—that's it!
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
It's a free country, sir; the man's mine, and I do
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at your side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I am afraid I am not quite so much the man of the world as might be good for me in some points. My feelings are not quite so evanescent, nor my memory of the past under such easy dominion as one finds to be the case with men of the world.
~ Jane Austen
To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.
~ Frederick Soddy
The crown of creation.
~ Herdeb
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
~ Booker T. Washington
He that can work is born to be king of something.
~ Thomas Carlyle
L'unica rivoluzione che serve è quella dentro di te. Le altre si ripetono in maniera costante, perché al fondo c'è la natura dell'uomo. E se l'uomo non cambia, se l'uomo non fa questo salto di qualità, se l'uomo non rinuncia alla violenza, al dominio della materia, al profitto, all'interesse, tutto si ripete.
~ Tiziano Terzani
FOLCO: Non servono le rivoluzioni? TIZIANO: E da qui il mio passo verso l'unica rivoluzione che serve, quella dentro di te. Le altre le vedi. Le altre si ripetono, si ripetono in maniera costante, perché al fondo c'è la natura dell'uomo. E se l'uomo non cambia, se l'uomo non fa questo salto di qualità, se l'uomo non rinuncia alla violenza, al dominio della materia, al profitto, all'interesse, tutto si ripete, si ripete, si ripete.
~ Tiziano Terzani
l'unica rivoluzione che serve, quella dentro di te. Le altre le vedi. Le altre si ripetono, si ripetono in maniera costante, perché al fondo c'è la natura dell'uomo. E se l'uomo non cambia, se l'uomo non fa questo salto di qualità, se l'uomo non rinuncia alla violenza, al dominio della materia, al profitto, all'interesse, tutto si ripete, si ripete, si ripete.
~ Tiziano Terzani
What more could you want? How about dominion over this 'beautiful place'? Beauty doesn't last. Friends and family decay. Power is the only thing that goes on forever. Jack answered with his gut. No, love goes on forever.
~ P.C. Cast
Hasta te creo dueña del universo.
~ Pablo Neruda
Warriors like Alexander the Great seek sovereignty over the soil; masters like Sri Yukteswar win a farther dominion—in men's souls. It
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
invested with the dignity of possession.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
I had the need to be the good master, but definitely the master, no matter what the cost.
~ Pat Conroy
Our "kingdom" is simply the range of our effective will. Whatever we genuinely have the say over is in our kingdom.
~ Dallas Willard
Jiwa manusia mendambakan penguasaan atas cangkang jasmaniahnya
~ Dan Brown
to think that this was all my own; that I was king and lord of all this country indefensibly, and had a right of possession; and if I could convey it, I might have it in inheritance as completely as any lord of a manor in England.
~ Daniel Defoe
Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn well please with it, because the whole damn thing belongs to you.
~ Daniel Quinn
If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it.
~ Daniel Quinn
N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.
~ Daniel Quinn