Quotes about power

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“A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”

“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”

“It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity”

“I had hurt her feelings, I found out later; I didn’t know I had that power.”

“Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend.”

“And hope is like love… a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.”

“Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.”

“That’s what you taught me - we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.”

“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.”

“If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.”

“It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.”

“We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. (p.9)”

“Demonic activity levels? Do they have a device that measures whether the demons inside the house are doing power yoga?”

“The incorporation of a bank and the powers assumed [by legislation doing so] have not, in my opinion, been delegated to the United States by the Constitution. They are not among the powers specially enumerated.”

“Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.”

“A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.”

“Change
is the one unavoidable,
irresistible,
ongoing reality of the universe.
To us,
that makes it the most powerful reality,
and just another word for
God.

Earthseed: The Books of the Living
Lauren Oya Olamina”

“And for the first time in my life, I saw something new reflected in the eyes that saw me. Respect. It taught me a very valuable lesson. That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others”

“A friend in power is a friend lost.”

“The will to be stupid is a very powerful force.”

“You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.”

“The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.”

“Rules of taste enforce structures of power.”

“Finally the vampire released him with another groan, sitting back on his haunches. "Your blood isin power." Running his tongue over a fang, he said, "Among other things. I believe I might be high. But Iit.”

“She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.”

“I can see now that it’s the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going. And I know now too that in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better.”

“The love in his eyes was so powerful, I needed to look away. Seth had an amazing grasp of the English language, but there were days when that skill was nothing compared to what he told me in his looks.”

“Vote, v. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.”

“We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.”

“By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.”

“I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for a many-colored and luminescent thing, thinking that a highly reflective surface conveyed the power to walk on water.”

“But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.”

“In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside.”

“Whenever you have a sorcerer betwixt your thighs, your powers tend to disappear”

“Is it possible to specialize in more than one element?"
She laughed and shook her head. "No. Too much power. No one could handle all that magic, not without losing her mind."
Oh. Great.”

“Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.”

“The doctor says there are such boys springing up amongst us—boys of a sort unknown in the last generation—the outcome of new views of life. They seem to see all its terrors before they are old enough to have staying power to resist them. He says it is the beginning of the coming universal wish not to live.”

“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.”

“How does fear become so powerful? We can’t see it. We can’t touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control us. Sigh. I hate feeling afraid, and I hate, hate, HATE feeling out of control.”

“the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.”

“This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.”

“Never underestimate the power of a brillian stylist.”

“Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.”

“If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.”

“Women’s liberation has often been portrayed as a movement intent on encroaching upon or taking power and privilege away from men, as though in some dismal zero-sum game, only one gender at a time could be free and powerful.”

“The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking… the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)”

“The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange.”

“… some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness.”

“the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.”

“Magic was singing in me, through me; I felt the murmur of his power singing back that same song.”

“Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.”

“Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.”

“A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.”

“Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all;”

“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”

“To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.”

“Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.”

“I can't go back because I lost all my Soul Reaper powers! - Rukia
You lost your powers? What are they, socks? - Ichigo”

“Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.”

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”

“I want a magical horse that fits in my pocket," Wil said. "And a ring of red amber that gives me power over demons. And an endless supply of cake.”

“Frank Zhang! I, Jason Grace, praetor of the Twelfth Legion Fulminata, give you my final order: I resign my post and give you emergency field promotion to praetor, with the full powers of that rank. Take command of this legion!”

“Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.”

“Power is an illusion of perception.”

“Knowledge is power.”

“The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition.”

“Power knows power.”

“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”

“The power of thought is far greater than most people ever realize.”

“Dangerous? Do you remember what Xavier's power is? Teleportation. Limited Teleportation, They guy can move about 10 feet. Worst thing he could do to me? Poke me in the eyes, and go "Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk" and Zip away before I can smack him," - Elena”

“See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places”

“It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita”

“It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.”

“While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.”

“Faith is to fear nothing, to stand unswayed, the power to surmount any obstacle.”

“She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.”

“… Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.”

“This is a mournful discovery.
1)Those who agree with you are insane
2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.”

“Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own.”

“That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.”

“I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.”

“His kisses were gifts. He kissed with everything he had, with power and passion and hunger and love. He held nothing back, giving everything, exposing everything.”

“Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.”

“No' is golden. 'No' is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives.”

“Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.”

“Feminism, coveting social power, is blind to women’s cosmic sexual power.”

“For each person there is a sentence — a series of words — which has the power to destroy him”

“nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility”

“Your powers drain you too much,' [Percy] noted.
[Nico] nodded sleepily. 'With great power… comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”

“Nothing external to you has any power over you.”

“This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the most part "the free world" seems to be regarding it as merely normal.”

“Oh would some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us.”

“…find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.”

“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours”

“Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.”

“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.”

“The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.”

“You used your power to toss one rock at me?" he exclaimed, an almost comic note of incredulity in his voice.
"On the contrary," I heard Dorian say pleasantly. "I didn't use magic for that. I just threw it.”

“Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.”