The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.

Time is the power of God.

The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do…

You will see that one side has all of the power. The other side has no power.

Truth is not a right to be claimed, but a gift for those who are able to conquer it. ☥

Storytellers are the most powerful people on earth. They might not be the best paid– but they are the most powerful. Storytellers have the power to move the human heart– and there is no greater...

Ursula Monkton smiled, and the lightnings wreathed and writhed about her. She was power incarnate, standing in the crackling air. She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all...

Power’s a strange thing, lad. It’s a drug people like me crave it.

Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up...

They try to resist change. Power comes from becoming change.

We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it’s the most powerful thing you could ever do.

[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power...

Better exert power than justify it!

Most governments strive to keep the masses from thinking; if the masses began to think the government would not be in power – rjs

Pray that your marriage is one in which you both agree & that God will be in the center of it

You get a lot of power plays and you get a lot of shots you can’t see,

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...

Apple had a great quarter, no question about it. We are very pleased with the strong demand for our Power Macintosh G3 computers, which accounted for 51 percent of all units sold.

Most people’s greatest regret is not living the life they knew they could live.

Because love is also a power. A great power, and it should not be disdained.

Insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and grovelling submission to those you can’t. Once having set up her idols and built altars to the, it was imevitable that she would worship there. It was...

Understanding the beauty of our humanity unlocks the power of our spirituality.

Taking risks, choosing growth, challenging ourselves, and asking for promotions (with smiles on our faces, of course) are all important elements of managing a career. One of my favorite quotes comes from author Alice Walker,...

If fucking up is power, I should be the Hulk by now.

I strike terror among men, I can’t be bothered by what they think.

There was nothing but power, and those who hadn’t yet found the tap. (Greachin)

It is an heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in’t.

Power must be claimed. Wealth won. Rule, dominion, empire purchased with blood.You scarless children deserve nothing. You do not know pain. You do not know whatyour forefathers sacrificed to place you on these heights. But...

Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things – once the cloak of deceits is...

I am afraid, I cannot and will not ‘surrender’ to Orthodoxy!!My life in itself is an ‘Epic experiment’ of nature and new living!!And I am living the ‘Great Adventure’..this moment..NOW!!

China is trying to portray itself as an emerging and responsible global power. But continuing to offer unconditional support to one of the world’s most odious regimes makes it impossible to take such claims seriously....

Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women…

It became clear to her that all men, however respectable in appearance and however elevated their position in society, were utter weaklings in front of a beautiful woman. – The Yacoubian Building, p. 42

God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness – and LOVE; but if this idea is too vast for your human faculties – if your mind loses itself in its overwhelming infinitude, fix it on...

Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds...

But I could control these flames. It was an irresistible urge, one that I didn’t want to ignore. – Aurora

Kelsier smiled. ‘It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It is a power that, had you been born an aristocrat, would have made...

The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in...

Tranquility is not weakness; from tranquility emerges power and strength.

Our thoughts create our lifestyle, if you live healthy, it means you think healthy thoughts and if you think unhealthy thoughts, it will reflect in your health and lifestyle too.

…It is necessary for the average citizen, if he wishes to make a living, to avoid incurring the hostility of certain big men. And these big men have an outlook – religious, moral, and political...

This feeling of power, it’s happiness to sit in a cottage by the Danube among six women who think I’m semi-idiot, and to know that in Paris, the headquarters of intelligence, 500 people are sitting...

People with power listen less carefully, and have difficulty taking into account what others already know.

It’s like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

You weren’t recruited at that high major level, you don’t travel the way (power conferences) travel, you’re not on television as much.

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder.

But it is no use to justify yourself. It is no good to explain. It is weak to be anecdotal. It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A...

Wouldn’t it be nice, for once, to find a world which was at peace with itself. No matter how always those few wanted more than others. Those not satisfied with running their own lives but...