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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• I don't want to do the nerdy, goofy guy again. That was really fitting for the 'Napoleon' world, but that's kind of where I want it to stay.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • World
  • Guy
  • Want

• 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

• You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Best

• 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

• John McConnell may have used the phrase Earth Day before we did, (but) he knows our events were not similar. Ours was a political exercise. His was a peace exercise.

  

  Gaylord Nelson
  • May
  • Political
  • Earth

• ...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
  • Success
  • Dream
  • 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

• I pretended to be an open book, but I was closed off and conceited.

  

  Coco J. Ginger
  • Closed
  • Conceited
  • Open Book

• Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Hope
  • Worry
  • Treacherous

• I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Think
  • Lying
  • Said

• Earth in beauty dressed Awaits returning spring. All true love must die, Alter at the best Into some lesser thing. Prove that I lie.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Earth
  • Lying
  • Spring

• The condition of the United States positively announces the lack of substance, of unifying principle from the start: that consensus is a lie, and that the absence of consensus is a necessary condition for, not the dissolution of the political entity, and its reconstruction according to both viral and virtual principles, which, are, in practice, user-generated.

  

  Davis Schneiderman
  • Lying
  • Absence
  • Consensus

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

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Lying
  • Form
  • Domination