Richelle Mead Quotes

It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.

I don't care about keeping seats of power.

Everywhere in life, everywhere in the world, there has to be bosses.

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

I don't have a master. I'm not sure if I have an equal.

Hamish smiled and rubbed his hands together. "Sure we can. What do you say? Pigs in a Blanket?" He leaned over the cool counter and raised his eyebrows at Gabrielle. "The only way I'll get under a blanket with you is if both of us are on fire," she told him.

Fine," Strider said tightly. "You can. But you wont. Because you know that if you take the woman out of this home, I'll go gray from worry. And you like my hair the way it is." "Stridey-man. Are you hitting on my? Trying to get me to run my fingers through those mangy locks?" Gideon chuckled. "Sweetie pie." Striders lips even twitched into a grin. "You know I hate when you get mushy like that." Boy loved it. No question.

Ashton grinne and raised her eyebrows. "I can't believe you're telling me a Vincent boy brought you to Grove, Alabama and not me." Shrugging, I returned her smile. "They're heard to resist." "Don't I know it."

I am the very model of a modern major general

Through obedience learn to command.

I think Bush came back because Colin Powell was there. Hey, I'm the brigadier general, baby.

He's the president. I'm the general. Unless I want to get impeached, I got to do what he says.

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

As soon as politicians start climbing up the ladder, they suddenly become kings. I don't know how it works, but what I do know is that republics came to the world to make sure that no one is more than anyone else. The pomp of office is like something left over from a feudal past: "You need a palace, red carpet, a lot of people behind you saying, 'Yes, sir.' I think all of that is awful."

Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.

Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

On the bright side," Percy said, "both Jason and I outrank you, Octavian. So we can both tell you to shut up.

All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles,and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.

If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?

What's your status?" she asked him. "Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours?" "Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude.

Wherever there is power there is age.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Her heart pounded as [Cam's] lips bypassed hers and came to a stop, whispering in her ear: 'Don't let him flip you off next time.