James K. Polk Quotes

I like a man who's going to tell me 'No!' sometimes.

As a top player, you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything.

I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to be the kings that I always expect them to be.

I'm more attracted to a stronger man rather than a feminine man. Someone who would just throw me down and take control. I love feeling helpless. I definitely like a man who is aggressive and confident.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon.

I'm not a high jumper, but you don't see guys intimidating me or posting me up.

I'm not running from anyone, I'm the champion and I can choose who I'm going to fight.

Fresh from a costume fitting, where I had been posing in front of the mirror assuming what I thought was a strong position - arms folded, butch-looking...you know - I met with the woman in charge of Holloway police station. She gave me the most invaluable advice: never let them see you cry, and never cross your arms. When I asked why, she said 'because it is a defensive action and therefore weak.

We were not born to sue, but to command.

Never be put off by your target's anger; it is a sure sign of enslavement.

I must show no fear, no weakness, no doubt.

I can't let it pass when you say: "You are the weak party." No, I am not the weak party. I am the man who is making the war. I am the man who is making the peace.

Never take no from somebody who cannot say yes.

I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

Shot me twice. I want my name, or I'm going to start charging you a fee every time I field something for you. And it's going to be expensive. I'm Park Place. Bud-dy." His red, goat-slitted eyes squinted at me from over his smoked glasses. "You're more like Oriental Avenue right now, dove. What are you on?

Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

If you can't say yes, it's no. Don't sugarcoat it. Don't talk yourself into yes just to seem like a nice guy. No one ever went broke because he or she said "NO" too often.

He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a brief irrational moment, she wished she could walk away from him. Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!