Alexander Pope Quotes

To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.

I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.

It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

God says to me with a kind of smile, "Hey how would you like to be God awhile And steer the world?" . . . . "How much do I get? What time is lunch?" . . . . "Gimme back that wheel," says God. "I don't think you're quite ready yet."

Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm, it's destructive-type situations like you saw in New Orleans with Katrina. You're increasing the frequency of that stuff in low-lying areas fairly dramatically.

I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.

There are elites that are real leaders and role models. There are elites that are really selfish and want to pull up the ladder once they've reached the roof.

In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

What the King dreams, the Hand builds.

From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.

Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.

To a brighter light, to a promised land, you can feel the power, of the master's hand.

I believe very profoundly in an over-ruling Providence, and I do not fear that any real plans can be thrown off the track. It maynot be intended that I shall be President--but that would not break my heart.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.

Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation, like God himself, to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down.

Suddenly you've worked yourself up to the top of the pecking order and you say to yourself, okay, this is going to be fun.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

The hand that controls the supper dish rules the world!

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

I got a bunch of people together to talk about doing a lot and decided that I really want to throw my hand in and do as much as I can.

Sometimes God allows storms to come together in such a way that they ultimately fulfill something that would never have happened otherwise.

I feel that I am a man of destiny.

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus