Nature Quote by Jennifer Egan

“His mind, never content with shallow satisfactions, crept to the brink of knowing. What kind of power was it if it would never be…

— Chinua Achebe

“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

“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

“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

“in the absence of real power blood seemed the only alternative. though he could walk away, and had to walk away, he could not…

— Thomas Williams

“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

“I thought how there was a kind of power in being needed. In having a purpose. I could feel it hardening up my bones…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“...and he would have also to endure his book like a form of fatigue, to accept it like a discipline, build it up like…

— Marcel Proust

“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

“some man of power must have existed, with gifts that seemed miraculous to his own times.”

— Mary Stewart

“He didn’t want the life he was living now to be his lot forever, but only he had the power to change it.”

— Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

“He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at.…

— Arthur Conan Doyle