"Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne."

-- Walter Savage Landor

#Power Quotes #Missing Quotes #May Quotes

“Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.”

Source : Song: To Ramona, Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan, 1964
“Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.”
“The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western Europe. I fervently hope that my pursuit, as a Japanese, of literature and culture will, in some small measure, repay Western Europe for the light it has shed upon the human condition.”

Source : Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1994.
“The true enemy of man is generalization.”
“I really enjoy the direct dialogue with the fans. I'm very cognizant of my audience. I'm a trained storyteller and entertainer, and I know I wouldn't be able to work at the level I work at if people didn't enjoy what I did.”

Source : Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 18, 2010.
“When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.”

Source : Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.615, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I really don't know why the Muslims do what they are doing. Those terrorists don't seem to have a moral code.”

Source : Source: www.blackfive.net
“The Pope, if nothing else, should be a Catholic. If he were to announce that women would make great priests, except it's a pity that more of them aren't gay, because of the greater compassion they could bring to the task, it might endear him to liberal Catholic commentators , but it would make him something other than a Catholic, in the true sense.”

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