Potentate Quotes

#1. Professor Braithwope was undergoing a very dangerous test indeed. For queen and country, the potentate had said. For science, Sophronia thought.

Gail Carriger

#2. Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant.

Herman Melville

#3. The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.

Louis Sullivan

#4. To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.

Barbara Smoker

#5. My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my head in all humility before knowledge, purity, before every person where I see God face to face.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?

Robert Louis Stevenson

#7. Power educates the potentate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. A man acquainted with God has more power than any earthly potentate. Gold can't do everything.

D.L. Moody

#9. You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.

Paul Keating

#10. For Art alone is great:
The bust survives the state,
The crown the potentate.

Theophile Gautier

#11. Remember the Hottentots?" asked James. "They've become the Khoi now, which means that the Germans will have to retire that wonderful word of theirs, Hottentotenpotentatenstantenattentater, which means, as you know, one who attacks the aunt of a Hottentot potentate.

Alexander McCall Smith

#12. Until one comes who is mightier,
The one sprung from misery,
The one who was weak,
The one who was hunted,
The one marked with claw and vine,
The one named in secret,
The one called Jezelia.

Mary E. Pearson

#13. I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.

Mem Fox

#14. A culture," the poet W. H. Auden observed, "is no better than its woods.

Chris Hedges

#15. Haymich finally drops the good-natured act. "you know who else, Katniss. You know who stepped up first."
Of course I do.
Gale.

Suzanne Collins

#16. With acting it's your neck up there in the end. And if you think the director can't help you it's one thing. But if you feel they're reining you in when they need to be giving you some rope, or vice versa, then I just don't tolerate that.

John Malkovich

#17. At the Christmas party, the secretary with the long red hair ate three pickles, and four salesmen panicked.

Milton Berle

#18. He was my strength when I needed him to be, my friend when I needed someone to talk me down, my equal in a world where by law I would always be less than him, and honest to gods, he was the love of my life.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#19. My father, that silhouette, a form comprised of all I did not
know, a shape filled with rain. Whenever I asked, she'd say, 'You
had no father. I'm your father. You sprang full-blown from my
forehead, like Athena.

Janet Fitch

#20. It draws you in and you feel involved as if you're watching. - Barbara Bailey

Scarlett Avery