Quotes About Ascendancy

The United States was a third-rate military power when World War II began. When it ended, America was the most powerful nation in history.

The way to have power is to take it.

the frontiers of our Empire to know that the British dominion all over the world could not endure for a year, perhaps not for a month, if it was founded upon a material basis. The strength and splendour of our authority is derived not from physical forces, but from moral ascendancy, liberty, justice, English tolerance, and English honesty.

I have seen enough in peace and war of the frontiers of our Empire to know that the British dominion all over the world could not endure for a year, perhaps not for a month, if it was founded upon a material basis. The strength and splendour of our authority is derived not from physical forces, but from moral ascendancy, liberty, justice, English tolerance, and English honesty.

Terry Ito had said Eddie Tang was on his way up. Maybe Eddie figured taking advantage of Mimi Warren and stealing the Hagakure were the keys to ascendancy.

The Prince of Shadow is no longer a prince, dear. He's as good as king of this realm.

ona je tako beskrajno iznad njih - iznad svakoga na svijetu, nije li tako, Nelly?

It is the natural order of things that successive generations will achieve more than their predecessors.

At noon on Tuesday, August 1, his U.S. Third Army officially came into being, with nine divisions under three corps. At the same instant, Bradley ascended to command the new 12th Army Group, complementing 21st Army Group while still subordinate to Montgomery.

Before marriage a woman may procure some éclat by pretending to believe in the fiction of her ascendancy; but after marriage, the worshipped beauty becomes a very plain every-day sort of person, and the poetry of the sex's power is at an end for ever!

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

I never saw a man get superior so fast.

O ineluctable superiority of northernness

How do you behave when you win? When your enemies are at your mercy and your power has become absolute: what then?

Just when I think it couldn't get any bigger, 'Tuskegee' reaches a new level of success.

Worked my way up the proverbial food chain to become president of NFL Europe.

Yes, we are fortunate because as a band we've always been on the up, always getting more successful.

Height is not might.

Whether or not one likes Huntington's formulation, one thing is clear: the evil that has finally reached our shores is not merely the evil of terrorism. It is the evil of religious faith at the moment of its political ascendancy.

To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws ...

There are many worlds in the 'Realm of Worlds' where the ascendant beings are not male or female.

The shortest route to ascendancy is the degradation of someone or some group. It is a dangerous and deadly shortcut to self-esteem that never arrives at its destination.

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

Almost immediately after Obama's inauguration in 2009, the Republicans regained framing superiority in public discourse, and that played a major role in the ascendancy of the Tea Party in Congress and in state houses throughout the nation. Now Republicans are setting their framing sights on the cities as well as the states. What happened?