Quotes About Ascendancy

The root of empowerment is power.

Beyond a certain threshold, power erases embarrassment

Britain was still seen as a world power. It was enjoying

All of them giggled and swaggered in that happy ascendancy, repellent in any land, of teens on their turf.

The longer we dwell on our determination, the greater is its power to achieve our prosperity and ascendancy.

it occupies more and more space in society, and at last becomes its ruling force.

A bully waits until they are in the ascendancy to pounce on people.

I'm taking over boxing.

Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.

These twelve factors explain both the rise of religious discourse today and the ascendancy of a Jesusanity that respects Jesus and his message but domesticates his uniqueness.

But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy.

Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S.

My mother had always wanted me to take care of her, but she pictured this as a manifestation of her ascendancy, not her decline.

From the 1070s, instability in the Holy Land deepened. In 1071 an army led by the Seljuq commander Alp Arslan, or Heroic Lion, routed Byzantine forces at the Battle of Manzikert, in what is eastern Turkey today. The battle, which marked the beginning of Turkish ascendancy in Anatolia and the slow decline of Byzantium, was a cataclysmic defeat. Humiliatingly Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes was captured and taken prisoner.

When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.

The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.

Money can buy many things. Even power.

They'll have the high ground

If you look at my career, I kind of got progressively better and better and better. I came closer to the top.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

Lists are a form of power.

The reality is that China is a much stronger power today, because the economic dimension has been added to the military and strategic one.

Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power.

Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.