She captured the spot of my world’s centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock...

Heritage was everything: it was a golden skeleton key, gleaming with power, able to get the wielder through any number of locked doors; it was the christening of the marriage bed with virgin blood on...

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

Every day in life we’re told who this is and who that is. But when we sit we’re all the same when we remove our hat.

I am an expert at seeing peoples greatness.

Da revner tåken – og endnu en gang står han for oss, titanen, lynomfunklet, vassdrivende, skinnende som smergelpusset jern. Det raper av torden omkring ham, men det rager ham ikke, ingenting rager ham, der han...

[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight.Just think of the millions, from all over the globe,...

There is no neutral position in the Lord. You are either becoming more like Christ every day or you’re becoming less like Him. That’s because whether you realize it or not, you’re never standing still.

Maybe there are going to be more shots because of power plays and stuff like that, … It’s a good thing. The more shots you get, the more difference you can make.

Truth begets knowledge and knowledge begets power.

Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

To witness miracles unfold in your experience, count your blessings and be thankful. Perceived small blessings accumulate to be the most powerful.

Though it doesn’t feel like it, crisis places us front and center of desire, which is the force of power.

The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys:Power, like a desolating pestilence,Pollutes whate’er it touches, and obedience,Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,A mechanised automaton.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.

I am the witch of my mystical world.

Femininity is your greatest power. Embrace it!

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

Verily, I swear, ’tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk’d up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.

The spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his rapidity; he was very, very fast. And like the modern...

Now you see. We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from outside of ourselves diminishes us — because comfort and power, unless they are...

Victories are won while on your knees! Keep praying for those who rise up against you. Fear not. The Lord has rectified the problem. Prayer is POWERFUL!!

power is obtainable respect is earned loyalty is priceless and revenge is sweet these are the lessons we learn in life

…empathy is the most important power there is. Without it, we are doomed. With it, we can truly change the world.(interview from USC)

Women are controlled by men like a currency of the world.

There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.

When you give people a choice, they believe they have power.

The media—stenographers to power.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

And so even the righteous heart is besieged by the blinding light of false knowledge. Falsity is like an ocean that presses around solitary moments of truth, treatening to overwhelm or blind the seekers of...

Structure your thought pattern to what you want to achieve and who you want to become.

Sexual energy between two people is a primal force comprised of power (energy that moves toward another) and virtue (knowing the energy between the two is right).

An attitude of gratitude is life’s most powerful affirmation

El poder, el tiempo, la gravedad, el amor. Las fuerzas que de verdad mueven el cotarro son invisibles.

Pretense cannot sustain blind power.

When love is your power and imagination is your guide, nothing is impossible.

Ijapokuwa maombi ya sifa yana nguvu kuliko maombi ya kushukuru, kushukuru kuna nguvu kuliko kuomba.

Some things are so powerful and so beautiful that to see them will turn your soul inside out.

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is...

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won’t create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the...

I’m fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of ‘powerlessness.’ Join the club, we are not in control. God is.

Remember that the choices you make, and the reasons you make them, shape your destiny. Remember your free will…And remember, what the True One has made is supposed to bring balance and unity, not anger,...

Words can heal, words can also kill. Choose your words carefully so that you’ll pull people away from their emotional graves rather than pushing them into it! Inspire, don’t insult!

Love is the source of great power and great strength.

You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present.

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among...

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

There is undoubtedly a strong possibility, notwithstanding the vagaries of contingency and misfortune, that my son mighthave fallen—or might, we could say, have voluntarily jumped, in accordance with the ethical codes with which he has...

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it … one must have the courage to dare.