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

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.

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

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...

Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

I would argue that passion is more important than brain power.

Never stop believing in your dreams or the power within you to make them come true.

Whenever you see an overnight success, your eyes deceive you. What you are witnessing is the hour of opportunity unleashing the potential energy of previous choices. It was not one decision, but the accumulated power of all that came before. The fuse was lit on a loaded cannon.

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

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...

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.

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...

The absolutely awesome incredible power of belief is the genie in your life.

… 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.

Radical honesty with oneself is an exquisite risk; that yields the reward of claiming ownership of the power to amaze yourself.

But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

How far you go in life and in your career is dependent on how far you can think good thoughts!

Where will it all end? In the destruction of all other command for the benefit of one alone – that of the state. In each man’s absolute freedom from every family and social authority, a freedom the price of which is complete submission to the state. In the complete equality as between themselves of all...

Your greatest disappointment will often lead you to your greatest appointment.

He’s got unbelievable power. It’s plus-plus power.

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at...

People with power always take advantage of those without power.

When you have no real power, go public — really public. The public is where the real power is.

Things are as they should be at this moment. When you accept that, you become responsible for everything you have and are. You then hold the power to change your future!

Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

I’m not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria.But actually trusting someone when they have nothing to gain from me just doesn’t make sense.All friendships are negotiations of...

The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies, regulators, and elite institutions-all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization.

Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop one of the balls, every time.”—Zarost

In other words if a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. One can see how this worked at its starkest in Xenophon’s Anabasis, which tells the story of an army of Greek mercenaries who suddenly find themselves leaderless and lost in the middle of Persia. They elect...

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

People have the power to change their perspective. They just get caught up in an endless cycle of foolish things that don’t matter.

If, in his pride, he considers God as a challenge, he will deny Him; and if God becomes man and therefore makes Himself vulnerable, he will crucify Him.

We’ve got Carlos Delgado, Carlos Beltran, Cliff Floyd, guys that have a lot of power.

The power of thought is not a compelling force. It is a building force, and it is only when used in the latter sense that desirable results can be produced.

Millions are impressed by the victories of power and take it for the sign of strength. To be sure, power over people is an expression of superior strength in a purely material sense. If I have the power over another person to kill him, I am “stronger” than he is. But in a psychological sense,...

Sword and words—same letters, and same ability to cut down.

A peaceful mind is a powerful mind…Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself.

A waitress, bringing Finkler more hot water, interrupted Treslove’s answer. Finkler always asked for more hot water no matter how much hot water had already been brought. It was his way of asserting power, Treslove thought. No doubt Nietzsche, too, ordered more hot water than he needed.

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

When wisdom arises, our inherent power as a being naturally arises as well, and then we begin to view things differently. We begin to see things based on the truth that we have found inside, not the truth that isimposed by others on us.

If you see yourself as a man, no one will dare to see you as a kid.

Power is something that is out of term.

The problem isn’t who is in charge. It’s what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as machines. Or, actually, as mechanisms. Human emotion and sympathy are unprofessional. They are inappropriate to the exercise of reason. Everything which makes people good – makes them human – is ruled out. The...

Might and wrong combined, like iron magnetized, are endowed with irresistible attraction.

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.

Don’t Have The Power To Stare At The Sun. I Can Only Try Even I Know I’ll Fail. At Least I Have The Courage To Do That. I Know My Power And I Know My Shortcomings Which Most of The People Cannot Even Realize About Their Own. I’m Powerful In My Own Little Innocent World….

Dream is a window to the other realm