Quotes About Potency

He who has might has—right; if you have not the former, neither have you the latter. Is this wisdom so hard to attain?

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

to have solely one thought, but it to be capable to destroy the universe.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

1. Death has depreciated, it has become a formality and politeness. 2. Love is a hormonal fantasy of passion, over time it turns into fidelity. 3. Love is libido, testosterone, potency. When everything dries up, only loyalty remains.

What matters is that she could, if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.

When does power exist? Only in the moment it is exercised.

she could kill them in three moves before they stirred in their comfortably padded chairs. It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could, if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

The beliefs in the potency of drugs to heal, diets to strengthen, moneys to secure, are the values or money changers that must be thrown

The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power.

If she used weapons the way she used words, no one would stand against her; they'd have no idea where the stroke would fall next.

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

I worry sometimes that we're apt to confuse forgiveness with forgetfulness. The potency of forgiveness comes precisely from the fact that it must be done while being goaded by an unhappy memory.

Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.

Those things are forbidden, as entreating the angels with prayer. I know that very well, one cannot ask for a life, or two lives. One can only warrant the hope of an increasing potency in each man's heart.

I did not ask the sign how my husband fared in whatever space was allotted to him in the universe. I did not ask the fate of Sandy. Or Sam. Those things are forbidden, as entreating the angels with prayer. I know that very well, one cannot ask for a life, or two lives. One can only warrant the hope of an increasing potency in each man's heart.

the Arab Spring, which has transformed Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and, as I write, shortly Syria. These transformations each demonstrate the potency of the idea of democratic institutions.