"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph."

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Source : 1963 Address to a special session of the UN General Assembly, 4 Oct, making him the first head of state to address both that organization and the League of Nations.

Haile Selassie

#Procrastination Quotes #Voice Quotes #Justice Quotes

“I don't think I'm great at acting. I think I'm great at directing.”
“Advise persons never to engage in killing.”
“Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game”

Source : Morgan Wootten, Joe Wootten (2012). “Coaching Basketball Successfully-3rd Edition”, p.15, Human Kinetics
“The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.”

Source : Sarah Ferguson (2010). “What I Know Now: Simple Lessons Learned the Hard Way”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
“I don't always know what's going to go on in terms of the mood of the story. Sometimes I start with the mood, but sometimes I just try to work toward discovering it. But I do think often there's a mood or unsettling quality, in which the reality of the world seems to be taken away, that I really love, and it's something that I almost always unconsciously move toward.”

Source : "5×5: Brian Evenson". Interview with Hayden Bennett, believermag.com. January 15, 2015.
“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.”
“Horses are very keen on body language, and what I refer to as â€œpresenceâ€, and expression. They know quite a bit about you before you ever get to â€˜em. They can read things about you clear across an arena.”

Source : "The Real “Horse Whisperer”". Interview with Andrew Howley, voices.nationalgeographic.org. June 16, 2011.
“All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.”

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