676 quotes found
“But there are many ways to be powerful. There is power in stillness. There is power in watching, waiting, saying the right thing at the right time to the right person. There is power in being a wom...”
“What would you sacrifice for power?”
“The power we hold comes with an added responsibility to inspire through words or actions and build someone else's life. Our power definitely does not lie in zapping others of their powers.”
“Power does not always shout its presence, my Lady, and each of the two hundred men armed behind you on this road represent a thousand more ready to die at your command. Every word you speak has the...”
“A woman must be able to stand in the face of power, because ultimately some part of that power will become hers.”
“Power is the crown that eats the head,...”
“...power doesnt shift. Power is resolute. It is the mountain, not the wind. To shift so easily is to lose trust.”
“oo many people are profoundly illiterate in power (TED Talk: Why ordinary people need to understand power). As a result, its become ever easier for those who do understand how power operates in civ...”
“And that brings me to my definition of power, which is simply this: the capacity to make others do what you would have them do. It sounds menacing, doesn't it? We don't like to talk about power. We...”
“Power inheres in a center. You're going to the center.”
“One of them says, 'Why did they do it?'And the other answers, 'Because they could.'That is the only answer there ever is.”
“[Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dark.”
“Capability doesn't equal intent, Doctor. Do you want what she knows or not? Because if you keep looking at her like the caged lab rat, she'll keep looking at you like the evil bloody scientist with...”
“Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.”
“Power is a funny thing. Sometimes you can just take it.”
“The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself.”
“To tell a story is to take power over it.”
“She dropped the things she was holding and desperately grabbed onto the table for support, but not before she hit the dresser directly with her stomach. The collision was hard. She expected pain. S...”
“We have little power to choose what happens, but we have complete power over how we respond.”
“Self-knowledge is power.”
