Quotes About Ascendancy

All men recited self-aggrandizing stories, words of ascendancy and exception, to balm the inevitable indignities of fact. An emperor need only repeat those stories to command the hearts of men.

The idea of Asian ascendancy has entered public culture.

The spell of power never quite releases its hold.

Chief Superintendent Arnot might hold power, but Armand Gamache was the more powerful man.

I'm in the major league now.

Power has no limits.

In the streets of Hau-kai, we wait. Night comes, winter descends, The lights of the world grow cold. And, in this three-hundredth year From the ascendancy of Bilat, He will come who treads the dawn. Tramples the sun beneath his feet, And judges the souls of men. He will stride across the rooftops, And he will fire the engines of God.

This is what evolution means--ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater--progress. In the material universe, progress to higher forms; in the moral universe, progress to higher life.

The Guise family's ascendancy was over.

And why is strength so important? THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: Because it is only by becoming stronger that a man can realize his divinity. AUTHOR: In other words, through strength a man can become godlike? THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: Yes. And a godlike man—a man who is pure force, inaccessible to any compromise—is called a hero.

Our goal is self-transcendence

Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked it, and the educated man counted in his circle, however large or small it was, as the mighty, the powerful, the imposing one: for he was an authority.

Once we had the Protestant ascendancy,' Cor Mogaill said. 'Now it's the Catholic ascendancy. And they both rule with the same mixture of self-interest and cynicism.