Quotes About Power Plays

#1. Even as he wanted to master her, he hated the idea of her as acquiescent. He needed her to struggle against him, to give as good as she got. He craved power plays between them, mental games. But ultimately he did want to dominate her.

Kresley Cole

#2. To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Rita Mae Brown

#3. The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. Acting in eight different directions, he becomes, instead of the weakest piece, one of the most formidable units.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#4. The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

Bud Selig

#5. I do believe that when we face challenges in life that are far beyond our own power, it's an opportunity to build on our faith, inner strength, and courage. I've learned that how we face challenges plays a big role in the outcome of them.

Sasha Azevedo

#6. It is in the dark quietness the mind likes to play. The weak and tired body looses it's battle for power while the minds plays it's wild adventures for you to explore.

E.A.G.

#7. In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.

John Masefield

#8. The power of a positive self-image plays a vital role in experiencing perfect health.

Deepak Chopra

#9. CLYTEMNESTRA
What ails thee, raising this ado for us?
SLAVE
I say the dead are come to slay the living.

Aeschylus

#10. Ayla should have been the son of my mate. Brun to Broud, Clan of the Cave Bear.

Jean M. Auel

#11. I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

Reba McEntire

#12. I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.

Tyrone Power

#13. There's no faster way or surer way to consolidate power and disenfranchise critics than to operate in secret. So this plays squarely into the promotion of the unitary executive. That's one factor.

Ted Gup

#14. The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject.

Ben Edwards

#15. American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.

Michael Mandelbaum

#16. A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.

Ethan Gilsdorf

#17. As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

Felicity Kendal

#18. Ohioans, I think, in large numbers, have felt that the government has not been on their side in all of these issues: on pensions, on the cost of prescription drugs, on the health-care system generally, on jobs, on trade agreements.

Sherrod Brown

#19. I don't have many actors in my family, but I do have a Great Uncle that is a film-maker in Philadelphia, and my great-great-grandparents were Flamenco dancers in the 30's in New York, they were Spanish dancers.

Aubrey Plaza

#20. The optimum human population of earth is zero.

David Foreman

#21. I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

Buzz Aldrin

#22. Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.

Louis L'Amour

#23. Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.

Stacy Schiff

#24. It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in 'The Practice' than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

Michael Emerson

#25. The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

Anton Chekhov

#26. The unforeseen, that strange, haughty power which plays with man, had seized Gauvain and held him fast.

Victor Hugo

#27. Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A.

Michael Isikoff

#28. If we can play like that every week we'll get some level of consistency.

Alex Ferguson

#29. I recently had the opportunity to participate in Inc.'s first-ever 'Hire Power Awards' event in Washington, D.C. The event was a testament to the power of American entrepreneurship and the role that it plays in driving job creation and innovation in a wide array of industries.

Karen Mills

#30. The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.

Curt Schilling

#31. E. B. White had a romantic tenderness toward nature in a capital R, 19th-century way. He was knowledgeable, a part-time farmer, and a hardheaded realistic person.

Michael Sims

#32. In my 20s, I could just power through stuff and be fine, but now, in your 40s? It's kind of like Kobe Bryant. He plays basketball a little bit differently than he did when he first started out.

Daniel Wu

#33. Most of us, most of the time, act within plays the lines of which were written long ago, the images of which require recognition, not invention.

Sidney W. Mintz

#34. One does not become a poet by uttering beautiful words. One becomes a poet by pouring their soul as wine into the Cup of Love.

Subhan Zein

#35. It was only since the turn of the century that one returned to the immense role that abstraction plays in the human mind by its power of concentration upon absolute essentials.

Sigfried Giedion

#36. Books have power to bring you glory or doom, it all depends on perception.

Nikita Dudani