Alan Paton Quotes
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
-
It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
-
I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
-
The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
-
But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
-
I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
-
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
-
Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.
-
The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
-
I don't know who Little Richard is.
-
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
-
I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
-
But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
-
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
-
There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
-
Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
-
I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
-
I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
-
Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
-
The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.
-
Individual writers can certainly make a difference, but they are working within a system, an institution, that still holds tremendous power over whose voices are heard and whose voices are rewarded.
-
The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
-
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
-
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
