Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
—Margaret Thatcher
He conquers who endures.
—Persius
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
—Rudyard Kipling
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
—Margo Kaufman
When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.
—Ken Kesey
I've found that often the quality you see in successful people is knowing when to take the initiative, and being quick about it. I've never sat around, waiting for someone to tell me to take charge. I just do it.
—R.K. Lilley in Bad Things
People's reaction to me is sometimes "Uch, I just don't like her. I hate how she thinks she is so great." But it's not that I think I'm so great. I just don't hate myself. I do idiotic things all the time and I say crazy stuff I regret, but I don't let everything traumatize me. And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. So that's why you need to be a little bit brave.
—Mindy Kaling in Why Not Me?
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
—Arthur C. Clarke
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
—Noam Chomsky
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
—Woodrow Wilson
You throw an anchor into the future you want to build, and you pull yourself along by the chain.
—John O'Neal
One thing I truly knew—knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest—was how love gave someone the power to break you.
—Stephenie Meyer in New Moon
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
—Eric Hoffer
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero