Marianne Williamson Quotes

I'm not used to saying no to this man on any level.

If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.

One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on.

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

I'll talk. You'll listen.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.

He who demands does not command.

Power never takes a back step—only in the face of more power.

At the moment my head is my own. In a moment it will be yours and you can do with it what you will.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

It's time to discuss what it's going to take to get you beneath me"-GC

I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft, silken skein round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced - conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph _I_ can win.

She might not know what your routine is, but I do,” I said softly. “So put the lantern down. You’re not burning me yet, and we both know it.” “What’s she saying?” Sarah demanded, hobbling over. His white brows drew together, and I allowed a little smile to play on my lips. “Awfully bossy with you, isn’t she? Then again, it makes sense. She’s got the pants on, and you’re the one in the dress.

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.

Angel looks down at him and says, “Oh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender?

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

A lot of people refer to power as shooting a loaded gun. When you have to shoot the gun, you've lost the power. Other people's knowledge of your gun should be enough.

Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you

The only thing power respects, is power.