Diadems Quotes

#1. The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high.

Norman Mailer

#2. All thy old woes shall now smile on thee, and thy pains sit bright on thee. All thy sorrows here shall shine and thy sufferings be divine; Tears shall take comfort and turn to gems and wrongs repent to diadems Even thy deaths shall live and new dress the soul that once they slew.

Richard Crashaw

#3. With age, gone are the forevers of youth. Gone is the willingness to procrastinate, delay, to play the waiting game. Now each day is a treasure beyond compare ... because there are so few such diadems left.

Joe L. Wheeler

#4. I stood tip-toe upon a little hill, The air was cooling, and so very still, That the sweet buds which with a modest pride Pull droopingly, in slanting curve aside, Their scantly leaved, and finely tapering stems, Had not yet lost those starry diadems Caught from the early sobbing of the morn.

John Keats

#5. I'm being embraced by the public, but also baseball is being embraced.

Mark McGwire

#6. The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

Michael Mandelbaum

#7. It's strange how close love and fear live to each other.

Fredrik Backman

#8. Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

John Milton

#9. There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.

Herman Melville

#10. The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.

Muhammad Ali