Quotes about Power

But hatred and viciousness are addictive.

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.

I take back what you have stolen, and in your languages I announce I am now nameless. My true name is a growl.

A rebuke, a palpable rebuke! How dare she? He was already middle-aged when she was born! He could have been her father! He could have been her child molester!

For a whole month they'd had to play Barbarian Stomp (See If You Can Change History!). One side had the cities and the riches and the other side had the hordes, and — usually but not always — the most viciousness. Either the barbarians stomped the cities or else they got stomped, but you had to start out with the historical disposition of energies and go on from there.

I didn't want you to feel defenseless in the face of life. Life can be harsh. I wanted you to feel protected, and to know that there was a greater power watching over you. That the Universe was taking a personal interest.

The protector was her, the greater power was her, the Universe that took an interest was her as well; always her. "I love you," I said.

I wanted to ask why it had to be like this, but I already knew the answer: because it was God's plan. That was how the Aunts got out of everything

Stan got the message. He allowed the chicken assignations. What did that make him? A chicken pimp. Better than dead.

But such messages can be dangerous. Think twice before you wish, and especially before you wish to make yourself into the hand of fate. (Think twice,said Reenie. Laura said,Why only twice? )

Men are sex machines, said Aunt Lydia, and not much more. They only want one thing. You must learn to manipulate them, for your own good. Lead them around by the nose; that is a metaphor. It's nature's way. It's God's device. It's the way things are.