Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike them from existence, with nary a twinge of grief at their passing.

Continued observations in clinical psychological practice lead almost inevitably to the conclusion that deeper and more fundamental than sexuality, deeper than the craving for social power, deeper even than the desire for possessions, there is a still more generalized and universal craving in the human make-up. It is the craving for knowledge of the right...

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.

As many roads down as up, and the roads down as slippery as the others.

You have to be a dead-eyed dirty-souled maniac to want to spend your extended life trading punches with other maniacs. Once you’ve seized that power, there’s no getting off the merry-go-round. You fight like hell just to hold on or you get shoved off.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

I’ve learned that you cannot be bitter and happy. You cannot be pitiful and powerful at the same time, you have to choose one of them. If you’ve had a lot of people that have hurt you, then you won’t help yourself by being bitter, resentful and pitiful about it. Forgiveness is freedom, and forgiveness...

The American flag doesn’t give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It’s when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do we see her strength. When she unfolds her hand, and shows her frayed fingers, where we see the stretch of red-blood lines of man that fought for this land. The purity of white...

Her unusual dark hair and sultry eyes made her stand out— Anne Boleyn was Tudor England’s Angelina Jolie amid a sea of Reese Witherspoons.

The king who has the broad bean does not have one whole wafer. (Le roi qui a la fève – N’a la galette entière.)

… the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run.

The real you, the inner you, loves and adores you; but you cut off that power when you think badly of yourself.

But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said … is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. … But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.

I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

It is the immanent, all-pervasive power of the Divine that reveals Itself in numerous ways.

Truth begets knowledge and knowledge begets power.

Wealth is not money. Wealth lies in men. This is where true power lies, the power we value. This is what has convinced us to direct all our resources to building the individual, and to using the wealth which God has provided us in the service of the nation.

The less you talk, the more will become your mental power. With the increase in your mental capacity, there will be increase in your power of discrimination too.

The full-size car segment is fairly staid, with no new model introductions, according to J.D. Power segmentation. Although retained value improved year-over-year in December, the segment still lags all others. One driver of the increase in retained value is that incentives were higher in December 2005 than December 2004. Higher gas prices may also make...

Power does not justify sin. Power is not virtue. Virtue is that which lasts inspite of power

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Sophie knew about power animals,everyone did…Sophie thought she might be a cat, she liked cats a lot.

Hungry for what? Money? No. Power? Over people? That was like having power over clams.

To be able to shit on people before they get a chance to shit on you. That’s power.

He was one of those people in New York who was purported to “know everybody”. “Knowing everybody” is a phrase that denotes not having many relations with people but having relations with a few people generally thought to be significant and powerful.

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.

Lao Tzu’s first paragraph in the book “Tao Te Ching” is that the Tao that can be told is not the absolute Tao.Lao Tzu has his own logic, the logic of paradoxes, the logic of life.To understand Tao, you will have to create eyes.Lao Tzu believes in the unity of opposites, because that is how...

no body at home”, and the victim is the resultat of these two roles. It is always easier to follow a group without awareness, than to follow your own heart, to trust your own intelligence, love, truth, silence and creativity.

Red blood is just so hard to clean up” “You would know” I snap remembering Shade. “Because no matter how hard you try to hid it I see it all over your hands

There is power born of humility . . . Humility, in business and in life, is a powerful asset and does not denote lowliness, unimportance, or self-deprecation.

I know. He doesn’t,” Lydia answered.

Lydia had been fantasizing about him to the point she nearly drove him insane with it. It had taken four days for his energy to weaken inside her enough that he could go and visit her without fear she would throw him across the town in a gust of wind, and thus cause a scene....

You can’t retire to weakness — you’ve got to learn to control strength.

We made it on a cheap PC that couldn’t get enough power and kept crashing. We’d borrow microphones, cords and pieces, and we made our own kind of soundproofing. That’s what I mean about trying to be great with what you’ve got. … It gives you a sound that no one else has got because...

On résiste à l’invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l’invasion des idées.(One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.)

Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampire, it doesn’t matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power begins.

When things are good in your life, take the time to build and fortify your relationship with the Lord. Never become complacent about your relationship with Him, because there’s always room to grow DEEPER!

God’s power and love don’t fade, nor does His presence, but we cannot tap into it as fully when we don’t have praise and worship toward Him in our heart

What power has law where only money rules?

There are two powers in this world which cannot be matched. Beauty and Youth. Buy the beauty and imprison the youth. Give the best models, actress, and girls from town and nail them. I do not care how much it costs.

The second malady is the thirst for power. The thirst for power and position is unquenchable. Afflicted with these two maladies man converts the whole world into a madhouse.

We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

He hits with power to the gaps. We’re hoping he picks up right where he left off.

Jesus’ incarnation and ministry thus present us with the final critique of strategic religion; on the cross, where we see God almost deliberately ‘lose’ – as if duped into being strung up by a scheming, fearful group of clerics – we see the end of power games. God will not play. I sincerely believe that...

Love: I guess It is some kind of magic, It has a power to make us better… But there is the thing magic can sometimes be an illusion and nothing else.

The power of a corrupt government is located in the ignorance and indifference of its people – rjs

The act of claiming an identity can be transformational. It can provide healing and empowerment. It can weld solidarity within a community. And, perhaps most importantly, it can diminish power from an oppressor, a dominant group.

Love spells are nothing but wives’ tales. You can’t play magic inside the heart, for it’s more powerful than any spell. Lust you can order up with a wink, desire with a smile. But love is love, and there is nothing can touch it.