Top 74 Wields Quotes
#2. I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all except by some wandering deer. It is a river who wields the brush and it is the same river who before I can bring my friends to view his work erases it forever from human view. After that it exists only in my mind's eye.
Aldo Leopold
#3. A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. The universe was not built on integrity. In the face of weakness, force can and will triumph. All you can do is choose who wields that force. Us or the Starflyer.
Peter F. Hamilton
#5. Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skilfullly next time.
Paulo Coelho
#6. On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.
Aeschylus
#8. The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.
Laurie R. King
#9. It's just another weapon. Its nature depends on who wields it. He would have to keep reminding himself. The thoughts of hatred were so old they had become instincts. This was not something he could cure overnight. Like Nina with parem, it might well be a lifelong fight.
Leigh Bardugo
#10. You have the Destiny Blade and Bone Cutter, in addition to the talents inherited from your mother. Alice wields powerful magic, and I am Grimalkin.
Joseph Delaney
#11. My servants put you up to this." "And what if they did? Have you seen Bernadine? The woman wields a rolling pin all day long. I'm certainly not going to refuse her," Elle said. Severin released a bark of laughter.
K.M. Shea
#12. The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power
Steven Biko
#13. Meanwhile, the sword
began to wilt into gory icicles,
to slather and thaw. It was a wonderful thing,
the way it all melted as ice melts
when the Father eases the fetters off the frost
and unravels the water-ropes. He who wields power
over time and tide: He is the true Lord.
Seamus Heaney
#14. As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.
Philip Pullman
#15. We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do not wish to have, or avoid, things that other people control, because then you must serve as their slave.
Epictetus
#16. Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.
Marisha Pessl
#17. No' is golden. 'No' is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives.
Cheryl Strayed
#18. Draw Dyrnwyn, only thou of noble worth, to rule with justice, to strike down evil. Who wields it in good cause shall slay even the Lord of Death.
Lloyd Alexander
#19. When someone who wields political power does something you dislike or disagree with, it's incumbent upon you to object, criticize, and demand a different course. Those who refuse to do so are abdicating the most basic duty of citizenship and rendering themselves impotent.
Glenn Greenwald
#20. It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.
Jeanette Winterson
#21. History has shown more than once that when people surrender totalitarian powers to their rulers, they are inevitably exercised in the next big crisis. And let's not forget here that the next president who wields this power and who will be in charge of military might well be Hillary Clinton.
Jacob G. Hornberger
#22. Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it.
Brian Jacques
#23. A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are.
Steve Almond
#24. The Clayr saw me, the Wallmaker made me, the King quenched me, the Abhorsen wields me so that no Dead shall walk in Life. For this is not their path.
Garth Nix
#25. Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.
Harry Segall
#26. Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.
Charles Churchill
#27. No wonder tragedy wields the only hammer stout enough to crack the resilient bubble of complacency
Mark Frost
#28. Its powers?' Dallben answered with a sad smile. 'My dear boy, this is a bit of metal hammered into a rather unattractive shape; it could better have been a pruning hook or a plow iron. Its powers? Like all weapons, only those held by him who wields it. What yours may be, I can in no wise say.
Lloyd Alexander
#29. A woman wields power to build a home or destroy a home.
Girdhar Joshi
#30. Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris whereas a king who wields the sceptre by day should have his sleep disturbed by nightmares of rebellion and assassination.
Khushwant Singh
#31. Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#32. A giant wields a rusty saw. He gloats and hums as he works, slicing through my forehead and into the mind behind it.
E. Lockhart
#33. Arrogance. The number one cause of death among both peasant and king. Beware its sharp blade. More times than not, it injures the one who wields it most of all.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#34. A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
William C. Bryant
#35. The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.
Malcolm Forbes
#36. The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.
Leonard Read
#37. You will know him by the blade he carries and the Dark-born skill with which he wields it, for none who know the love of the Father may defeat the Darkblade, yet all must stand against him.
Anthony Ryan
#38. My best advice is to prepare daily to be bigger than your smallness. In my opinion, the reason most people stop and turn back from their dreams is because the tiny person found inside each of us wields more power than our bigger person.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#39. Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent
all depending on who wields it and how.
Steven D. Levitt
#40. Sometimes I think I am fate's sword. She wields me cruelly." Quentin wondered what it was like to be so unselfconsciously melodramatic. Nice, probably. "Right.
Lev Grossman
#41. To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eye and yet, the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory.
Eikoh Hosoe
#42. I'm not sure I can do this anymore." "My poor Adam. Always believing you are the valiant one, that right will triumph in the end. It's not always like that. The universe was not built on integrity. In the face of weakness, force can and will triumph. All you can do is choose who wields that force.
Anonymous
#43. God's Fatherly prerogative, is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in love, that the King's crown is forgotten in the King's face, and His sceptre becomes, not a rod of iron, but a silver sceptre of mercy - the sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of Him who wields it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#44. Our security is not a matter of weapons alone. The arm that wields them must be strong, the eye that guides them clear, the will that directs them indomitable.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#45. A person who wields power cannot see truth; that is the privilege of the powerless.
Lesslie Newbigin
#46. The hand that wields the knife shall never wear the crown.
Gavin Esler
#47. Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.
Jeff Grubb
#48. Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.
Louis L'Amour
#49. Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that wields it!
Arthur W. Pink
#50. Hark to that shrill, sudden shout,
The cry of an applauding multitude,
Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields
The living mass as if he were its soul!
William C. Bryant
#51. In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.
Henry Ward Beecher
#52. 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
#53. If he touches me, I will succumb. I know the power he wields over me and my traitorous body. I know.
E.L. James
#54. Every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence which would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would as certainly lose if she were ever false to them.
L.M. Montgomery
#55. If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
Earl Nightingale
#56. Why, the man killed over two hundred demons with this sword. They say it is charmed such that whomever wields it cannot be killed by a demon." "How did he die?" "Knifed by an exotic dancer.
Robert Asprin
#57. Kim Stanley Robinson wields a pen like a samurai sword
Me
#58. A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
Patrick Ness
#59. Our instincts weren't built to handle the kind of power our species wields over the planet, nature has been playing rough with us for so long, maybe it is no surprise we are being so rough with her now.
Dan Riskin
#60. The government wields a heavy hand, which is often used in an underhanded way.
Kenneth Eade
#61. The only woman who would wear a gown like this one, love, is one who knows the power she wields and isn't afraid to use it.
Tamara Hughes
#62. Shaunti wields the researcher's clipboard, the analyst's data, and the counselor's insight to bring the excellent newsflash that great marriages are the culmination of definable, repetitive micromovements that add up to deep relationship satisfaction.
Anita Renfroe
#63. They say that man is mighty,
He governs land and sea,
He wields a mighty sceptre,
O'er lesser powers that be.
William Ross Wallace
#64. The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.
R. Scott Bakker
#65. Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.
Thomas Henry Huxley
#66. Tools are neither demonic nor divine. It's all about who wields them.
Neal Shusterman
#67. The Federal Reserve, like other central banks, wields powerful tools; democratic accountability requires that the public be able to see how and for what purposes those tools are being used.
Ben Bernanke
#69. A man who wields a pen has to be accountable to society.
Shusaku Endo
#70. I do not for a moment suggest that Japan should be unmindful of acquiring modern weapons of self-protection. But this should never be allowed to go beyond her instinct of self-preservation. She must know that the real power is not in the weapons themselves, but in the man who wields those weapons
Rabindranath Tagore
#71. And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradox
For he is everything and nothing
Hero and fool
Potent, helpless
And with one word of truth or treachery
He will save or damn the earth
Because he is mad and sane
Cold and passionate
Lost and found
Stephen R. Donaldson
#72. Without wisdom, power tends to destroy the one who wields it.
Frederick Lenz
#73. A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.
John Stuart Mill
#74. In prayer you gain your strength - the power to gird yourself with armor that extinguishes every weapon your enemy wields.
Priscilla Shirer
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