“Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.”
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“Knowledge is power.”
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
“He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.”
“Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.”
“One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.”
“When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.”
“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
“Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”
“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”
“God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.”
“There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.”
“I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.”
“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”
“Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.”
“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”
“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.”
“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.”
“Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.”
“A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.”
“The eye sees what it brings the power to see.”
“There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.”
“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”