Quotes for All
Do you like to slide? His voice was eager. Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. No, Majesty. I’m terrified of heights. Oh. His polite tone had returned. I wish I could enjoy it. This fear of heights is an affliction. He nodded, a show of sympathy but not much interest. I … Read more
Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever. Ernest Becker
He[Napoleon] had destroyed only one thing: the Jacobin Revolution, the dream of equality, liberty and fraternity, and of the people rising in its majesty to shake off oppression. It was a more powerful myth than his, for after his fall it was this, and not his memory, which inspired the revolutions of the nineteenth century, … Read more
The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist. The time is past when we can be content with our social fabric merely because it … Read more
This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that nature told, with tender majesty. Her message is committed, to hands I cannot see; for love of her, sweet countrymen, judge tenderly of me. Emily Dickinson
A power of Butterfly must be – The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky – Emily Dickinson
This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me Emily Dickinson
By my count, the Deputy Prime Minister has sworn an oath of loyalty and service to Her Majesty no fewer than four times in the last two years, yet he has used his position as a minister of the Crown as a podium from which to rail against our history and our heritage. The minister … Read more
Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan’s altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement seem severe? The offering must be presented to some deity. Since God is pure and holy, and will accept nothing defiling in its character, He refuses this expensive, filthy, and unholy sacrifice; therefore … Read more
The late Queen Victoria once paid a royal visit to a renowned library. At one point, the head librarian asked, \”Your Majesty, might I please introduce my daughter to you?\” The queen replied, \”I have come here to view the library.\” Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford