Psychology Quote by Chinua Achebe

“He had only heard positive stories and legends from his family. It could fall to reason that there would be ones who sought power…

— Natasha Brown

“He liked the thought that his own power would one day be refined into translucence, with no memory of the blood and earth that…

— Jennifer Egan

“He felt powerful, and nothing was more important than power”

— C.J. Roberts

“I was never one to like power, but in the back of everyone's mind, you secretly wouldn't mind having some at one point or…

— Holly Hood

“It was part of what had made him so good at manipulating people - he could present them with what they wanted to see.…

— Cate Tiernan

“the idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary, artificial, idle, and individualistic life he…

— Leo Tolstoy

“But what use was the semblance of power without the substance?”

— Alison Weir

“...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path…

— David Ricardo

“A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he…

— John Williams

“Later he would ponder the relation between our extreme desire for something and our ability to realize it- was what we wanted inevitably brought…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“What was he? A mere human, stuck between the rungs of blended adolescence and nascent adulthood. What power did he command over the mysterious…

— Faraaz Kazi

“A great many people, he had noticed, spent large parts of their time worrying about things they were powerless to alter. Had they concentrated…

— Setterfield Diane