Top 100 Wield Quotes
#1. If I don't wield the sword, I can't protect you. If I keep wielding the sword, I can't embrace you. -Ichigo Kurosaki
Tite Kubo
#2. Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#3. The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they wield power, they write legislation. When you have scientifically illiterate adults, you have undermined the very fabric of what makes a nation wealthy and strong.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#4. My father will hunt you for taking his power if he finds out," he said into the frigid dark. "And kill you for learning how to wield it." "He can get in line," was all I said.
Sarah J. Maas
#5. One needs to be beyond love and above humanity to wield power, or so I sometimes think.
Hock G. Tjoa
#6. In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
Pat Boone
#7. Readers have the power that professors pretend they wield. Millions of words of professorial contempt have failed to kill Kipling. Praising Shaw to the skies has been vain.
Gene Wolfe
#8. Theologians are all alike, of whatever religion or country they may be; their aim is always to wield despotic authority over men's consciences; they therefore persecute all of us who have the temerity to tell the truth.
Frederick The Great
#9. As long as he had life, who deserved it so little, he would use it, wield it, and do whatever he could in its name, even if it was not, was never, enough
Laini Taylor
#10. David could tell, by looking at her face as she read, whether or not the story contained in the book was living inside her, and she in it, and he would recall again all that she had told him about stories and tales and the power that they wield over us, and that we in turn wield over them.
John Connolly
#11. Embelish your flaws. They will turn into your assets. And if you become one of us, I will teach you to wield them like an assassin wields a knife.
Marie Lu
#12. Because of their impact on our memories, writers rule. They wield the instrument by which our world is organized.
Danielle S. Allen
#13. Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.
John Mott
#14. Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive, is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.
William Cowper
#15. Like Rousseau, whom he resembles even more than he resembles Voltaire , Shaw never gave a social form to his assertiveness, never desired to arrive and to assimilate himself, or wield authority as of right.
Jacques Barzun
#16. Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
Michel De Montaigne
#17. (As are all living things. All are caught in the river of power that is the Force, trapped by its currents. Only those who wield the dark side of the Force are capable of changing those currents; they are riverbreakers. They do not surrender to fate. They are its foes.) The
Chuck Wendig
#18. Too much freedom given to those who didn't know how to wield it resulted in imprisonment for those who did.
Sarah Brownlee
#19. Moments come and go; quick flickers in time. Yet those moments can have the profoundest impact on our lives. Either we seize them, and wield them to our needs, or we let them go. It's the moments we let go that, I believe, remain with us strongest - because regret is something that never leaves us.
B.N. Toler
#20. Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.
Hal Draper
#21. I love you more than word can wield the matter, Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty
William Shakespeare
#22. The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.
Jorge Luis Borges
#23. Money is an inanimate object. It can do good works or bad works depending on the hands that wield it, and the hearts governing those hands.
Donald L. Hicks
#24. The method of authority will always govern the mass of mankind; and those who wield the various forms of organized force in the state will never be convinced that dangerous reasoning ought not to be suppressed in some way.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#25. New eras don't come about because of swords, they're created by the people who wield them.
Nobuhiro Watsuki
#26. Words wield power, both divine and mortal. We might think of the comparison of the power of words like this: God's words are omnipotent. Our words are potent.
Beth Moore
#27. It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#28. The mistakes were made by people who did not know how to wield the concepts University, division and team-spirit. Their puzzles arose from inability to use certain items in the English vocabulary.
Anonymous
#29. Women, on the other hand, had to wield their intellects like a scythe, hacking away against the stubborn underbrush of low expectations.
Margot Lee Shetterly
#30. Let us labor to memorize the Word of God
for worship and for warfare. If we do not carry it in our heads, we cannot savor it in our hearts or wield it in the Spirit.
John Piper
#31. To vote is to wield authority; it is the supreme authority from which all other authority derives - such
Robert A. Heinlein
#32. The sword of the Spirit - the Bible - is the weapon God has provided for us to use in this battle between truth and deception. Make it a priority to wield that sword skillfully.
Billy Graham
#33. It's not words that fail, it's the people who wield them. We have no power over life and death, we are subject to pain and disease and misery, but we command words. When you think about it, words are all we really have.
Jessica Zafra
#34. In a war, you wield every weapon you have, including words. Especially words.
Fonda Lee
#37. We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.
David Sarnoff
#38. Always remember, with a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power.
Kate Morton
#39. Once the sword was in my grasp, I had no choice but to wield it with all my life and spirit. That was how I had lived in every virtual world to this point.
Reki Kawahara
#40. Unconsciously I had discovered the commentator's secret weapon-that so long as you can wield words, it isn't necessary to know what you're talking about.
Malcolm Forbes
#41. How do you preserve your freedom when the powerful can use software bots to detect dissent and deploy drone aircraft to take out troublemakers? Human beings are increasingly unnecessary to wield power in the modern world.
Daniel Suarez
#42. Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here.
Daniel Ortega
#43. I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any power now. Sam and I are together. It's not an option.
Maggie Stiefvater
#44. There are some people...who might feel that such practices are misguided, like trying to wield heaven's powers on earth. And yet it was only in the carefully planned and created garden of Yugiri that I had found a sense of order and calm and even, for a brief moment of time, forgetfulness.
Tan Twan Eng
#45. When you're talking about truth and love, you can wield your profession, your craft, in a way that hurts people because you're so good, and so when someone can present it in a way that is inviting people into their joy, that's when the most beautiful things are formed.
Josh Garrels
#46. I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean - wherever my imagination ranges.
Anton Chekhov
#47. All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material sceptres.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#48. All human beings wield influence - a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#49. No magical abilities had ever revealed themselves to me no matter how much I wished for them. But I had a vast source of will. And will was an enchantment that no being could touch because I alone could wield it. That was power.
Roshani Chokshi
#50. I wield the flail of the lashing hail,
And whiten the green plains under;
And then again I dissolve it in rain,
And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#51. We should use all the tools the gods gave us," Juliette said. "Except for the one you wield, this power to make others fear.
Hugh Howey
#52. The more we ignore our emotions, the more likely they are to wield a powerful influence over us.
Chip Conley
#53. And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile, through streets still echoing with trade,Walk grave and thoughtful men,Whose hands may one day wield the patriot's bladeAs lightly as the pen.
Henry Timrod
#54. In general, when moviemakers talk to scientists, they usually see them as a resource to solve particular technical problems or script problems for them. So, something like: what sort of weaponry would aliens be able to wield?
Seth Shostak
#55. In proportion as man gets back the spirit of manliness, which is self-sacrifice, affection, loyalty loan idea beyond himself, a God above himself, so far will he rise above circumstances, and wield them at his will.
Charles Kingsley
#56. Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.
Frank Underwood
#58. The gods of the Greeks were like helpless children compared to humankind today and the powers we now wield.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#59. Moreover, man carries in his heart the desire always to wield his scientific knowledge in service of the greater good. He would of course never use it for destructive purposes. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! ...
Jacques Tardi
#60. For once the battle station is fully operational, you will wield the ultimate power in the galaxy." Tarkin
John Jackson Miller
#61. And it was written that no hand but his should wield the Sword held in the Stone, but he did draw it out, like fire in his hand, and his glory did burn the world. Thus did it begin. Thus do we sing his Rebirth. Thus do we sing the beginning.
Robert Jordan
#62. I don't write to chase away my demons ~
I wield my pen as a weapon...calling those bastards to war!
Muse
#63. For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not
Aristotle.
#64. If we are to wield great magic, then let us learn from great teachers: the alchemists -- magicians par excellence.
Lawren Leo
#65. If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
Yehuda Berg
#66. Having ascended to some spiritual strength by focusing on the power of the feminine, it is no doubt tempting to wield this strength against that which triggers memories of having once been weaker.
Thomm Quackenbush
#67. We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.
Barack Obama
#68. Everyone starved. Starvation is a potent weapon, and the Bolsheviks are happy to wield it. The cheapest way to get rid of the opposition is to starve them. Lenin did it the expensive way, shooting them, but the Soviets can no longer afford that.
Jane Smiley
#69. Silence was a weapon I could wield better than panic. And if it meant I never uttered another word until I found freedom, then so be it. The
Pepper Winters
#70. Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it. Zaphod Beeblebrox was amazingly good at his job.
Douglas Adams
#71. The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.
Beau Willimon
#72. The problem with American power is not that it is American. The problem is simply the power. It would be dangerous even for an archangel to wield so much power.
Timothy Garton Ash
#73. Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough.
Libba Bray
#74. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.
Douglas Adams
#75. The State then uses this monopoly to wield power over the inhabitants of the area and to enjoy the material fruits of that power.
Thomas E. Woods Jr.
#77. The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.
Augusto Boal
#78. Knowing how to wield psychic power leads to real solutions. Your feminine nature is strong, not weak. Your psychic gifts are your tools and landmarks that will allow you to take charge and further your own goals.
Laurie Cabot
#79. Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club to wield against the powerless.
Ben Shapiro
#80. Lust is a tool, desire a trap. Wield the first, and you can take someone's soul. Fall into the second, and they can take yours. ~ Isadora Conti to Grayson van Court
Riley Shane
#81. The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
Prince Charles
#82. The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.
John Boehner
#83. Women now wield considerable power along political lines and I believe each succeeding year for some time to come will find them wielding that power more effectively.
Bertha Knight Landes
#84. Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women ... that will be a society that works for everyone.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
#85. 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
#86. Which was more important? Stability or the ability to watch over the others? Blood of my fathers, he thought. I wasn't made for this politicking and scheming. I was made to wield a sword and ride down enemies .
Brandon Sanderson
#87. The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.
Mahatma Gandhi
#88. Well there are those that you wield and those that you join.
Richard Murdoch
#89. What should he do? It is simple. If he can escape from the grip of the people who wield the whip, he must run away. If he could have evaded his tormentors in the first place, he should have.
Simone Weil
#90. Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.
PZ Myers
#91. Swords are no good against the ironmen, unless the men who wield them know how to walk on water.
George R R Martin
#92. I wield my spear in the name of justice!
Zhao Yun
#93. The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.
George Friedman
#94. A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down
Gautama Buddha
#95. The ever-present macabre, a universal dance,
You cannot hide, whether you wield crossbow or lance.
Like the bones of the house in which you dwell,
Death will come, to drag your soul to hell.
Christa Carmen
#96. The good news is that you wield the power to create your thoughts. Why not create only positive ones throughout the day? ' --- Spiritual Lessons from Life
Sanchita Pandey
#97. Those who do not fear the sword they wield have no right to wield a sword at all.
~Shuhei Hisagi
Tite Kubo
#98. If it's achievement that you place your value in, you're never going to achieve enough. If it's power, you always need to wield power over others. If it's money, you'll never be rich enough. But if you do something and are a part of what is happening, then you're always in it and it's always enough.
Jason Segel
#99. America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
Nancy Pearcey
#100. My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man's skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.
Nelson Mandela
