C Wright Mills The Power Elite Quotes

#1. Women, I hope you know how essential you really are. Keep that crown on.

Alexandra Elle

#2. It's not important in life what happens to you, but how you handle what happens to you.

Zelda La Grange

#3. There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when in fact they're peaking.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#4. There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962.

Priscilla Presley

#5. Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

Tina Weymouth

#6. The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.

Alfred Noyes

#7. There are moments when you think you will cry forever. You never do. Eventually, sheer physical exhaustion forces you to stop, to settle, to becalm yourself amidst all the mad turbulence of bereavement.

Douglas Kennedy

#8. For love, we live
For love, we die
For love, we dream and get ready to be lied

Yarro Rai

#9. The truth about the nature and the power of the elite is not some secret which men of affairs know but will not tell. ... No matter how great their actual power, they tend to be less acutely aware of it than of the resistance of others to its use.

C. Wright Mills

#10. We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?'

Johnny Galecki

#11. By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.

C. Wright Mills

#12. There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.

Carson McCullers

#13. I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.

J.K. Rowling