Crowns Quotes · Page 7

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

— Juvenal

How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

— Hafez

Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.

— Lauryn Hill

If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.

— Bob Dylan

Christian worship must contain both the cross and the crown. Sing of majesty, and sing of mercy.

— Matt Redman

I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

— Louisa May Alcott

Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.

— George Noory

This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not…

— Thomas Watson

Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your…

— Khalil Gibran

My God! my time is in Thine hands. Should it please Thee to lengthen my life, and complete, as Thou hast begun,…

— Christian Scriver

Upon this crown my pledge I give, To my last breath,I hold this choice, I will your unjust deaths avenge, All here…

— Suzanne Collins

I was filled with rage. These same people who accuse Planned Parenthood of ‘targeting’ African-American children, they care about you only while…

— Gwen Moore

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

When I became Miss World, I couldn't believe I had won it. I used to sleep with my crown because I was…

— Priyanka Chopra

All object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I've won a medal, but that's nothing compared to the crown I'll get in Heaven. I see a lot of people in…

— Cindy Klassen

“Lysta, perhaps you could stand at the end of the table. That seat is reserved for Lord Torryn’s Heir, and unless this…

— Lauren Loscig

Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

You may wear your virtues as a crown, As you walk through life serenely, And grace your simple rustic gown With a…

— Phoebe Cary

The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord! O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n:…

— William Shakespeare

You think too much.' 'I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give…

— Henry James

The thing with movies is, because you have so little time, I always feel like there are more things we could've done…

— Denis Leary

But in school I remember hearing that for the second Quarter Quell, the Capitol demanded that twice the number of tributes be…

— Suzanne Collins

Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in…

— Isaac Bonewits

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

— Anonymous

Believing that what you do not know cannot exist is the crown of ignorance.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Jesus cannot be just liked. His claims make us either kill him or crown him.

— Timothy Keller

If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier…

— Epictetus

The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!

— C. S. Lewis

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

— William Penn

From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it.

— Eugene V. Debs

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

— Francis Quarles

I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.

— Mark Gatiss

If there be no enemy, no fight; if do fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown.

— Girolamo Savonarola

To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.

— Gordon Lightfoot

Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

— Friedrich Schiller

What would I do with starry crowns except to cast them at His feet?

— Mary Slessor

In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The hand that wields the knife shall never wear the crown.

— Gavin Esler