Loving someone gave them power over you, and she wasn't ready to do that just yet.
—Jaci Burton in Changing the Game
I thought bad things only happened to people with hubris. They don't happen to people like me, people that know how fragile life is, people that respect the authority of a higher power. But it has. It has happened to me.
—Taylor Jenkins Reid in Interrupted
Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for!
—Antonio Porchia
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
—Oscar Levant
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
—Samuel Johnson
An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply.
—Zadie Smith
People treat you with as much, or as little respect as you allow them to.
—Rachel Hollis in Party Girl
Maybe money can't buy love — but it can get you practically everything else.
—Debbie Macomber in The Perfect Christmas
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
—John Mason Brown
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
—Henry Ward Beecher
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
—John F. Kennedy
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
—Harry Emerson Fosdick
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
—Howard Zinn
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
—John Henry Newman