"Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it."

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Source : "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, Ch. 6, 1952.

Ralph Ellison

#Power Quotes #Self Quotes #Stopping Quotes

“There is nothing enduring in the life of a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.”
“Id like to live in the Greek islands”
“I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.”
“There's really no question that there is an anguish associated with the inability to marry in this life. We feel for someone that has that anguish. I feel for somebody that has that anguish. But it's not limited to someone who has same-gender attraction.”

Source : Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org
“Both learned and unlearned young men seldom go to church, and in general do not attend to their spiritual education, looking upon it as unnecessary and giving themselves up to worldly vanity. Attention must be paid to this. It is the fruit of pride... They consider attendance at church and Divine service as the business of the common people and women, forgetting that, in the temple, Angels officiate with trembling, together with men, and regard this as their highest bliss.”
“There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if itâ€™s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.”

Source : "Aboriginal people must get jobs, says Opposition leader Tony Abbott". www.news.com.au. June 30, 2010.
“The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films.”
“And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him to publish? Who promised him a hearing? Who has broken faith with him? Your poem, your novel, who bargained with you for it?”

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