Abdicate The Throne Quotes

#1. Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.

Beth Moore

#2. The government of India regulates nearly everything, so there's very little progress; whereas in Hong Kong the government keeps its hands off ... and the standard of living has multiplied.

John Templeton

#3. I have longed to move away but am afraid; Some life, yet unspent, might explode.' Wow.

Colleen Hoover

#4. We built a life together based on the things we cared about, the things that we loved, we were blessed with a daughter who turned out pretty well I would say. We have been very blessed.

Hillary Clinton

#5. Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#6. Walk the midway and hear the carnival barker.
Come see the freak named after his deceased father.
Come see the prince who wants to abdicate his throne.
Come see the son whose name is carved on a gravestone.

Sherman Alexie

#7. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.
An all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless.
We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

John Steinbeck

#8. If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.

Adriana Lima

#9. Nothing says I love you like a pre- lubricated butthole.

Nick Pageant

#10. She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.

Sarah Dessen

#11. To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that honorable and brave - that was magical.

Ransom Riggs

#12. In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.

Hilda Solis

#13. What opened up the American West was the fact that you owned the real estate. You owned the gold mines, the oil wells. The creation of these, back then, million dollar industries drove the railroads and eventually the airlines to provide this kind of transportation.

Peter Diamandis

#14. As long as people are talking instead of fighting, nobody loses very much blood - unless he happens to bite his tongue.

David Eddings