Paradoxically, the few eras of peace were times when men of war had high influence. The Pax Romana was enforced by Caesar's… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
Dylan Landis knows how to unnerve a reader, even as she's appreciating being unnerved. Rainey Royal thrums with sex and power. A… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the… — Jaye Davidson Copy Share Image
For me, with the Blue Man Group, I got asked. It was for the Royal Variety Show, which was something I always… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student… — Monica Raymund Copy Share Image
Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The late Queen Victoria once paid a royal visit to a renowned library. At one point, the head librarian asked, "Your Majesty,… — Countess of Longford Elizabeth Pakenham Copy Share Image
Every relationship has one or the other motive behind it. Friendship or enemity are not purposeless.Oneness of motive is turned into friendship.… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Sir,-The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a… — Johann Gottfried Galle Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
During the reign of Rameses III (the Twentieth Dynasty) Egypt saw a flowering of its civilization and the harp became the royal… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
“t's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain's standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. British cars, trucks, and buses ran… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
I first played the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14. I was a violinist with the Birmingham Schools Concert Orchestra, and… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
As I walked up the imposing steps of the Royal Academy, I came fact to face with Alwen Hughes. She looked just… — Rolf Harris Copy Share Image
I am pure light, not just a fistful of clay. The shell is not me, I came as the royal pearl within.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There were events that stuck in my mind. One, for example, was the case of the missing palace seal at the beginning… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light,… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
By 1914, the royal families of Europe were inbred to the point of pantomine. You feel about them as you do about… — Nancy Banks-Smith Copy Share Image
“Prince Harry and Prince William didn’t buy a castle to live in! They live at Kensington Palace. Why do we have such… — Natalie Pace Copy Share Image
Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves. Like most girls,… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by the Royal Family because they are shrouded in mystique, and the Queen, and to a certain extent William,… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The games haven't even started yet and already there are people complaining about the horrible accommodations at the Sochi Olympic village. Toilets… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
It seems that England's royal family is running out of money. They are down to just $1.6 million. Well sure, that's what… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents… — Dries van Noten Copy Share Image
There were certain young actors I had trained with at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art who had always got the big… — David Warner Copy Share Image
There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
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