Top 100 Quotes About Magic And Power
#1. The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.
Robert Ringer
#2. Strength and weakness are tangled things," the Aven Essen had said. "They look so much alike, we often confuse them, the way we confuse magic and power.
V.E Schwab
#3. Man's word is his wand filled with magic and power! Man comes into the world financed by God, with all that he desires or requires already on his pathway. This supply is released through faith and the Spoken Word. If thou canst believe, all things are possible.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#5. The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
Anais Nin
#6. I think part of what makes us unique as artists and as singers is that we can bare our souls in front of millions of people That's the magic and power of being an artist. You can be honest. Always remember that. And do not be afraid.
Shawn Stockman
#7. Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.
Edward Abbey
#8. Even if your difficult time comes at you out of the blue - like cancer - even those times, opens your heart to the magic and power of life, and gives you this inner commitment to live every moment.
Elizabeth Lesser
#9. When we think of fear as an acronym meant to support us, we find that fear itself has genius, magic and power in it. We can use any fear that we feel to our advantage in the moment by remembering what FEAR really is: Forgetting Everything is All Right.
Lori Cash Richards
#10. He wanted to write someone and demand a refund on his dark side which clearly ought to have irresistible magical power but had turned out to be defective.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#11. There's magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love them. When it scares you, let it - that's your ego letting go.
Jacqueline Koyanagi
#12. The thing about magic is everyone wants to own some, most so badly they're willing to beg and borrow and steal it from whomever they can. But the truth is unless you own your own magic you'll be destroyed by it; whether you lend its power to others or use what isn't yours doesn't matter.
Tiffany FitzHenry
#13. There is something in the universe that responds to brave, intrepid thought. The Power that holds and that moves the stars in their courses, fights for the brave and the upright. Courage has power and magic in it.
Ralph Waldo Trine
#14. What's underneath is everything. But that doesn't mean you can't enhance it. Beauty has its own kind of magic. And the appearance of something can have power too
Danielle Paige
#15. How we spoke about magic and with whom we discussed it. Humans outnumbered us and found our power frightening, my mother explained, and fear was the strongest force on earth.
Deborah Harkness
#16. We are entwined. I drew power from the spirits and spirit workers and I returned it to them tenfold. The true source of shadowshaper magic is in that connection, community, Sierra. We are interdependent.
Daniel Jose Older
#17. Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous - the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should not be underestimated. It works, often in ways that are unexpected and difficult to control.
Starhawk
#18. The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be because the software is right.
Bill Gates
#19. I've always believed in the power of prayer. One prayer can accomplish more than a thousand plans. That isn't a magic formula, but it's an idea that if you pray, keep praying and then praying some more.
Mark Batterson
#20. Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.
Sigmund Freud
#21. Droughts especially appear to have accompanied the spirits of the dead in bee-form, and for this reason the honey offering was almost always customary in rain-magic, and the power of predicting rain was attributed to the bee.
Hilda M. Ransome
#22. There is a great power within that when used in beauty and immaculate purity can cure and heal and cause miracles. When you use it it spreads like a magic garden and when you do not use it it recedes from you.
Lord Buckley
#23. If tomorrow morning by some stroke of magic every dazed and benighted soul woke up with the power to take the first step toward pursuing his or her dreams, every shrink in the directory would be out of business.
Steven Pressfield
#24. When you hear the word 'tyranny of magic' as we heard from Elder Caldell, you will know that it is the calling card of killers. Don't be fooled by their platitudes that is for the common good. Their real power is to strip us of our abilities so that they may easily conquer and rule us.
Terry Goodkind
#25. This is the story of a girl who fooled a thousand boys, a boy who fooled an entire country, a partnership that would change the fate of realms, and a power to challenge the greatest tyrant the world had ever known. Expect magic.
Sherry Thomas
#26. Religious teachings and teachers have conditioned us to think of faith as a magic catalyst that makes God work for us. In no way does faith make God work nor does it release some kind of miracle power. Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present
Eric Butterworth
#27. The only source of my power are the pages you hold and the words written thereon. As you read them, I hope the magic starts to work between my words and your imagination.
Elizabeth Vaughan
#28. An evolved and balanced Ego can be a valuable tool for the Self. But a blinding one is always among the first footsteps into Oblivion.
Luis Marques
#29. I might here find the magic word of power to banish the demon and set me free, so that I should no longer be a man beside myself.
George MacDonald
#30. Sherrie would be there, and the last time I'd seen her at a social event she burst into tears when she saw me and ran out of the room. You're upset, I'd yelled after her, meanly.
Aimee Bender
#31. We've the right to dream, and that, I suppose, is the magic's greatest power: the notion that we can pick possibility from the trees like ripe fruit.
Libba Bray
#32. Hither I come, From my airy home, Afar in the silver moon. Take the magic spell, And use it well, Or its power will vanish soon! And
Louisa May Alcott
#33. Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.
Nora Roberts
#34. You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation ... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
Hermann Hesse
#35. I am the rightful ruler of this world And now that I, too, have awakened, like my dragons, I have come to take back what is mine.
Nenia Campbell
#36. Between your brain and your mouth (or your fingers) is magic: your power to choose what you say next. Use that magic.
Chris Brogan
#37. Any action, like any act of magic, is in some sense an act of faith ... I've seen the desert bloom, the flower that emerges from the barest hint of water, and I know the power of life will rise, stubborn and persistent to be renewed. May our actions be the wind that brings the rain.
Starhawk
#38. C-sections and epidurals should be blessings to women, but I suddenly wondered if they had become a means from which to steal the magic of the power of birth away from a generation of mothers.
P.C. Cast
#39. Life is so much easier than you think it is, and as you come to understand the way life works, and the power you have inside you, you will experience the magic of life in its fullness.
Rhonda Byrne
#40. This is the miracle of all miracles - when life sacrifices itself to become something greater. When it awakens to its potential and rises in power. That is true magic.
Seth Adam Smith
#41. The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
Stanley Kubrick
#42. [Bruno] Latour argues that one of the foundational gestures of western modernity has been the effort to formulate and police a heightened antimony between nonhuman nature and human culture.
-- Randall Styers, Making Magic, p. 17
Randall Styers
#43. Let me tell you something, kid," said Mrs. H of Boston and Beacon Hill. "Magic is just a word for what's left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.
Catherynne M Valente
#44. I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude ... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.
Gary Snyder
#45. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
Jean Anouilh
#46. I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers call it 'placebo effect'; I prefer to call it magic, for it occurs when something - a pill or a word - is imbued with power and meaning, and so it becomes effective. That is alchemy.
Kat Duff
#47. Lord help her, but she was instantly drawn to his scent - a mixture of smoke and salt and mystery - as well as his strength. The pulse of his heart, the hum of blood through his veins, the aura of power and danger surrounding him.
Jo Grafford
#48. Black Magick is the process of self-transformation through an antinomian initiatory structure, Black meaning the hidden wisdom, power of darkness, dreams and staging the reality you wish and Magick being the process to ascend, become immortal in spirit.
Michael W. Ford
#49. He kissed the corner of her lips before whispering by her ear, And that was just my hand, love.
Michelle M. Pillow
#50. Magic is a power, much like madness but so much more like fire.
Cynthia Gael
#51. The thing about Red Lanterns is that, while they have light powers and they have a power battery, they also have this weird shamanistic kind of blood magic side to them.
Charles Soule
#52. This is the power and promise of science fiction, this magic of creating and living in every possible future.
Kameron Hurley
#53. To become an Asetian is to die and be reborn. To forget all you have learned and learn all you have forgotten.
Luis Marques
#54. The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
Jacob Bronowski
#55. For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather, I should not believe that there was anything divine, but human, in these things, provided the power of the divine were overpowered by human knowledge and subjected to it.
Hippocrates
#56. Right now, I'm just a girl, and there is also magic in that.
Zoraida Cordova
#57. The government pretends to be endowed with the mystical power to accord favors out of an inexhaustible horn of plenty. It is both omniscient and omnipotent. It can by a magic wand create happiness and abundance. The truth is the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody.
Ludwig Von Mises
#58. Social power is at stake in theory-making, but the workings of this power are often unacknowledged -- and overdetermined.
-- Making Magic, p. 23
Randall Styers
#59. while "freedom" from magic is certainly invoked as a constitutive element of modern modes of subjectivity, this freedom is purchased only at the price of potent new forms of social control and regimentation."
-- Making Magic, p. 13
Randall Styers
#60. Whatever a happy house is surrounded by, by the heavy snow, by the storm or by the fire, it shall survive through the power of love and harmony, through the magic of togetherness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#61. Did you ever face Death and let it stare back at you right in the Eyes?
Luis Marques
#62. The metaphor is perhaps the most fruitful power of man. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#63. The word is not just a sound or a written symbol. The word is a force; it is the power you have to express and communicate, to think, and thereby to create the events in your life. The word is the most powerful tool you have as a human; it is a tool of magic.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#64. Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.
Alan Moore
#65. A woman armed with ancestral wisdom is a powerful force. You'll find her powers come from within, she is in tune with her spirit, and the magic of the universe. She trusts, values and follows her intuition.
Lori Bregman
#66. Seize this very minute; what you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Keith Ferrazzi
#67. Love - such a keen mystery prone to pierce and shatter the delicate heart. Yet it possesses more strength, power, and influence than any other magic known to man.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#68. Sometimes the dim veil between sanity and insanity is perception.
Luis Marques
#69. He understood her affinity to the water, inspiring as it was beautiful, and soothing to the soul. Standing there that morning, he realized he would never be able to look at the ocean again without thinking of her, and somehow he was still comforted by that thought.
D.A. Henneman
#70. The creation by word-power of something out of nothing
what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?
Aldous Huxley
#71. Mathematics is one of the surest ways for a man to feel the power of thought and the magic of the spirit. Mathematics is one of the eternal truths and, as such, raises the spirit to the same level on which we feel the presence of God.
Julio Cesar De Mello E Souza
#72. He knew that music spoke to the emotions, not the intellect. The heart was where people truly lived, and died. He also knew that this magic that music and poetry were said to possess was the power to touch that heart.
Ian C. Esslemont
#73. The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it.
Yoko Ono
#74. With astonishing wonder, I have seen the magic of life, the power of thoughts, and the beauty of imagination.
Debasish Mridha
#75. If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.
Van Jones
#76. And I didn't mean to shut her out, but sometimes I did it anyway. I liked having power. Power is its own kind of magic.
Adele Griffin
#77. You deserve for
your heart to be heard-
because love lights a
fire in us all.
it can make us warm with
wonder or melt from its
intense power.
nevertheless it is magic-
and that alone is worthy
of being unleashed.
Alexandra Elle
#78. I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.
Antonin Artaud
#79. Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days. Whatever you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#80. There is no perfectly shaped part of the motorcycle and never will be, but when you come as close as these instruments take you, remarkable things happen, and you go flying across the countryside under a power that would be called magic if it were not so completely rational in every way.
Robert M. Pirsig
#81. Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#82. To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.
Eike Batista
#83. Under his feet he felt the hillroots going down and down into the dark, and over his head he saw the dry, far fires of the stars. Between, all things were his to order, to command. He stood at the center of the world.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#84. Fear had also choked out any desire to work magic. It had been my crutch and my cloak, keeping me from exercising my power. Fear had sheltered me from the curiosity of others and provided an oubliette where I could forget who I really was: a witch. I'd
Deborah Harkness
#85. Returning to power in northern India is very important for the Congress party. No magic wand will work. We have to make our efforts. It will be a long and difficult struggle for us.
Sonia Gandhi
#86. Humans are naturally scared and confused beings. They not only fear the unknown, as they live fearing themselves ...
Luis Marques
#87. A word, after all, is a kind of magic. It locks the substance of a thing in sound or symbol, and affixes it to the ear, or paper, or stone. Words call the world into being. That's power indeed.
Kelly Barnhill
#88. When you begin to visualize and hold powerful positive imagery in your mind, it appears almost like magic. This is the power of gratitude.
Demi Lovato
#89. A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even more valuable: a kind of language-magic, the power that certain words possess to enchant our imaginative relations with Nature and landscape.
Robert Macfarlane
#90. Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as true today as it was ten thousand years ago that a Power from which the magic virtue has gone out, falls.
Bertrand De Jouvenel
#92. You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts.
Napoleon Hill
#93. Humans spend more time finding ways to fight and criticize who they consider a threat than actually learning how to overcome that threat.
Luis Marques
#94. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Margaret Atwood - In the end, we'll all become stories.
Puja Borker
#95. Architecture is the "magic of four walls," he writes, referring to its power to fundamentally transform how certain crimes are judged and how their perpetrators can be sentenced. He
Geoff Manaugh
#96. He pulled back on the bridle, stopping in disbelief. "Your love for him has damaged your senses."
"And your hunger for power has affected you intelligence
Maria V. Snyder
#97. My knowledge of computers begins and ends with hit power switch, magic box comes on.
Claudia Gray
#98. Unless I have enough personal power to keep commitments in my daily life, I will be unable to wield magical power. To work magic, I need a basic belief in my ability to do things and cause things to happen. That belief is generated and sustained by my daily actions.
Starhawk
#99. Nothing will teach you more about perceived value than taking something with literally no value and selling it in the auction format. It teaches you the beauty and power of presentation, and how you can make magic out of nothing.
Sophia Amoruso
#100. Magic. For the first time, she heard the word and felt a twist in her stomach, a little thrill. Having that kind of power, that kind of influence... it was a wicked thing.
Rhiannon Thomas
