Wole Soyinka Quotes

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Wole Soyinka

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• There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Distance
  • Late
  • Too Late

• She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

  

  W. L. George
  • She
  • Man
  • Educated

• I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • True
  • Stories

• As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Up
  • Me
  • Difficult

• The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me.

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Words
  • Angels
  • Bully

• I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Death

• ...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Time
  • World
  • Struggle

• I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, "No, I'm a Pacino. That's my name." I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she's adjusted so marvelously.

  

  Al Pacino
  • People
  • School
  • She

• The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Dream
  • Success
  • Small

• When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Know
  • Answer
  • Get

• You get from the world what you give to the world.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Give

• One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• Hillary Clinton possesses an extraordinary intelligence and a remarkable work ethic. I am proud that she will be our next secretary of state.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • She
  • Proud

• The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Life
  • Death

• People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked down tables of fried food, overturned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • Food
  • Path

• That was the challenge. How can you tell the story here and make sure it goes the same way on the other side of the world?

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • World
  • Way
  • Challenge

• I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Girl
  • Wish
  • Married

• I've always seen My Chemical Romance as the band that would have represented who me and my friends were in high school, and the band that we didn't have to represent us - the kids that wore black - back then.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • School
  • Kids
  • Band

• By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Beginning
  • Picture
  • End

• Nothing very new. By taking good care of yourselves you are of service to me and my family as well as yourselves, no matter what you do, even if you don't think so at present. But if you neglect yourselves and are unwilling to live, as though following tracks, in accordance with what we now say and have said in the past too, then no matter how much or how seriously you agree with me at present you will accomplish next to nothing.

  

  Socrates
  • Live
  • Family
  • Present

• I would love to say how nice it is to see you again, but that would be a lie. And I am nothing if not honest.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Nice
  • Lying
  • Would Be

• Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Lying
  • Form
  • Domination