quotes about Lust For Power

“My friend, Sue Ann, in college pulled me aside and said, 'Honey I love you but you have got to start waxing your eyebrows. They look wild!' So thank you , that kinda changed my life.”

“The lesser evil is also evil.”

Source : Naomi Mitchison (1997). “Lobsters on the Agenda”, Birlinn Publishers

“There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.”

“Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.”

“Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.”

“I often think my life would be a lot easier if I were a mute.”

Source : Patricia Gaffney (2004). “Circle of Three”

“It's such a cool thing in life to get what it is you want. Most of the time we don't, but occasionally we do.”

“There's something great about being a really young actor because you don't have a chance to be nervous. You don't know anything yet. Whereas one of the big challenges as you go through - I've been doing acting professionally for 10 years now - is to not let all the things that you know hold you back and make you more nervous. Once you've had a few people tell you that they don't like your ideas, that voice in your head can creep in that says, "Don't tell them what you think."”

“I think, that a man never passes the verge of moral humility, till self-righteousness be dethroned, till the high and towering imaginations of the man's own righteousness by the law be levelled by the mighty weapons of the gospel, and he brought to submit to the righteousness of God for justification, which is, in the gospel revealed 'from faith to faith.'”

Source : Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser (1836). “The Whole Works of the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine, Minister of the Gospel at Stirling: Consisting of Sermons and Discourses, on Important and Interesting Subjects. To which is Added, an Enlarged Memoir of the Author, by D. Fraser”, p.166

“Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.”