Clinging To Power Quotes

#1. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

George Orwell

#2. Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success.

Rex Reed

#3. I'd rather any kind of business on the ground floor than the utter lack of respect for pedestrians with which buildings are put up in this city today. . . . Nobody cares any more about pedestrian identity.

Claudia Pineiro

#4. Relationships give us a reason to live. Revenge.

Ronnie Shakes

#5. An expectation is defined as "an eager anticipation for something to happen." A goal is defined as "a purpose or objective." When we are clinging to expectations, we are waiting for something to happen and giving our power away.

Christine Hassler

#6. How can I find a way to overcome this?' is a much better question than 'Why is my life so bad?'

It's the questions we ask ourselves that will determine how we live our life.

Steven Aitchison

#7. In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power' ... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.

Chogyam Trungpa

#8. They say the seed you scatter will be the seed you harvest,

Joe Abercrombie

#9. He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the recollection of her clinging defence of him, seemed to thrill him through and through, - to melt away every resolution, all power of self-control, as if it were wax before a fire.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#10. Globalization is the next big artworld idea

Noel Carroll

#11. For the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.

Barbara Jordan

#12. Never wrestle with pigs. You get dirty and they enjoy it.

Creighton W. Abrams Jr.

#13. He invaded my consciousness in the same way the ocean washes up on the beach, with sweeping tides of longing and regret, and with such power and raw force, I often woke with the taste of salt from my tears clinging to my skin. Joanna about Ben

Vicki Pettersson

#14. CPR dummy looked like him and had clearly been stabbed. Repeatedly. In the groin. He thought she might have used the dummy for target practice, and tried not to be offended. Key word: tried.

Gena Showalter