5,584 Quotes About Power

The world was created by a divine power.

Sensuality must be integrated with your heart so that it will give powerful meaning to your life.

A good reader has the power to move the world.

So this is the power of a god, she had thought, a little unsteady, a little fearful. If that was him fully bound—if even a slight release in the sankhili meant he burned like the sun—then she could not fathom what he would be like once unbound.If you lock away a god’s power, she thought, do they become human?

Words set the tone for how the table is set.

Words set the tone for how the table is set, and how the food will be digested.

That’s because the true power of magic is not to send random objects careening off across the room. The true power of magic is to make ordinary people bow.

This was the kind of home that was safely hidden from the eyes of those who could not afford to live this way. That's what wealth does for you, she thought. It gives you the means and the power to remain concealed from the world if you choose - or if you need to.

Hadn’t my family been stupid to breed for magic? Someone like Hiss had been bound to pop up eventually. And then you got a not-particularly-wise, not-particularly-happy little boy who couldn’t be trusted with a sharp knife at the dinner table in case he accidentally cut his own hand open, and yet who had the power to defeat an army. How else could this have ended, other than with him being used as a weapon against us?