Wil S. Hylton Quotes

Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

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.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

I've learned that being a superhero isn't all glitz and glamour. We think if we have a special power, our problem will go away. It's just a new set of problems. Being a superhero alienates you and separates you from humanity. As Spiderman famously said, 'With great power comes great responsibility.'

Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.

Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.

It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

Caring for our veterans is the duty of a grateful nation. Unfortunately, the Bush administration and congressional Republicans have not lived up to this duty.

In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

He distinguished himself by his opposition to the Mexican war, taking the side of the common enemy against his own country; and when he returned home he found that the indignation of the people followed him everywhere and he was again submerged or obliged to retire into private life, forgotten by his former friends. He came up again in 1854, just in time to make his Abolition or Black Republican platform, in company with Giddings, Lovejoy, Chase and Fred Douglas for the Republican party to stand upon.

You found out who your real friends were. Once you don’t have that perceived power and influence, you’re not necessarily any use any more. The phone doesn’t ring as much.

I don't care if you keep this a secret or not. I've always supported you, and I think it's time this old Republican quit hiding behind the bush [i.e. George W. Bush].

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the [Vietnam] war.

Washington can be a very lonely place for Congressman and Senators. Many acquaintances almost all of whom want something and very few friends.

The Republicans have lost their way. Principle has been swapped for power, and they have gotten neither. They deserve to have lost.

Our nation has no right to expect that it will always have wise and humane rulers, sincerely attached to the principles of the Constitution. Wicked men, ambitious of power, with hatred of liberty and law, may fill the place once occupied by Washington and Lincoln.

I hold the George W Bush administration in complete and utter contempt.

The bottom line is, there're a lot of conservatives that don't feel Donald Trump is conservative, right? Or, he's not their brand of conservatism... and there's a lot of people who don't have a seat on the inside who used to have a seat on the inside.

Even the sheep are afraid of me.

It is rational Republicans who want to pull the plug on the Trump presidency.

On the top you are always lonely.

After helping the Republican National Committee address some of the troubling deficiencies the party faced after 2012, as outlined in its so-called autopsy report, and witnessing some real progress in our outreach to women in the ensuing years, I did not expect an egomaniacal arsonist to come along and set all that ablaze.

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.