The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you.
Mary OliverDon't underestimate the power of being underestimated.
Tim FargoTags: perception reality power self-esteem winning self-awareness powerful perceptions underestimate underestimated winning-mentality
Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That's what we do. How can you have much respect for mankind, or any belief in the social struggle?
Malcolm LowryTags: power nature destruction nature-of-man
The person in the saddle is not necessarily the one holding the reins.
D. Cypriani RegisTags: power position perception-and-reality
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
Veronica RothTags: fear love power powerful
Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things – once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.
Steven EriksonThis trespass had not come without a price. Living un-lives, material comforts and luxuries became superfluous, connection to the outside world undesirable, and power their only sustenance. But they had paid gladly, considering this “humanity” a small price for the power they now wielded; power that would sustain them far beyond the lives of mere humans and perhaps, in time, even grant them immortality.
J. ValorTags: life money power wealth humanity living materialism immortality luxury
If you truly want to pursue and achieve the success you were created for, you must recognize the role of vision, the significance of dreams and the power of actions without which you are just making a living.
Israelmore AyivorTags: life success power vision living actions true food-for-thought significance successful pursuit achieve discover pursue recognize succeed dream-big big-dreams take-action israelmore-ayivor truly play-your-role
The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But what will become of us if he marries and and begets other suns?
AesopThe best way to filter out the bad seeds was to place a job ad for Prime Minister in a national newspaper and all those that applied would be automatically disqualified.
Alex ScarrowTags: power politicians immorality
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