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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 you have it.
View quotes by Ralph Ellison

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.
View quotes by Jim Carrey

I was deeply saddened by the death of Pope John Paul II.

Quite apart from his role as a spiritual guide to more than a billion men, women and children, he was a tireless advocate of peace, a true pioneer in interfaith dialogue and a strong force for critical self-evaluation by the Church itself.
[on Pope John Paul II]
View quotes by Kofi Annan

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts - the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria - are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
View quotes by Edward Dahlberg

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
View quotes by Arnold Toynbee

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
View quotes by E F Schumacher

His re-election comes at a critical time, with a world that's fractured, divided and uncertain and must be brought together [on the Bush election win, 2004]
View quotes by Tony Blair

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time
View quotes by A P Herbert

Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.
[Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge]
View quotes by Karl Popper

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
View quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Clear leadership and support for our frontline staff is of critical importance to the future growth and development of the Group.
View quotes by Fred Goodwin

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
View quotes by Marianne Williamson

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
View quotes by Alec Guinness

I have been more constructively critical of this Government than my predecessors.
View quotes by Digby Jones

Pope Benedict XVI assumes leadership at a critical time in which the world's collective wisdom and leadership including that of the religious community is most important to face up to challenges of deepening poverty and under-development afflicting many people of the world.
View quotes by Thabo Mbeki

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical
View quotes by John Fowles

He is someone I respect [Beckham] as a man and as a player. He is the captain of England and has been a European champion. I have never been critical of him and reports implying that are incorrect as I've never made comments about him
View quotes by Jose Mourinho

What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me. [on Howard Stern]
View quotes by Chuck Barris

Writers are a strange breed, we are overly critical perhaps of others work but if others dare criticise our work, we take great umbrage and offence.
View quotes by Thomas Fleming



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