Dynastic Rule Quotes

#1. Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.

Jan Smuts

#2. If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect's beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a false one.

George Gaylord Simpson

#3. Try to be polite."
"I'm always polite."
"You're always eyeing people's valuables. That's hardly polite.

Jodi Meadows

#4. [Joy] does not ignore pain in the world, in another's life or in one's own life. Rather, it goes deeper, seeing confidence in God - and for Christians, in Jesus Christ - as the reason for joy and a constant source of joy.

James Martin

#5. Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except ... me?

Alan Moore

#6. After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first.

Howard Carter

#7. In principle, I am against principles.

Tristan Tzara

#8. Somebody needs to make Scooby a snack or something, 'cause this howling is freaking old!

Kresley Cole

#9. The direction you are currently traveling - relationally, financially, spiritually, and the list goes on and on - will determine where you end up in each of those respective arenas.

Andy Stanley

#10. There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read - unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.

E. Nesbit

#11. To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better.

Susan Sontag

#12. Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

Ray Stevenson

#13. However, neither rule of law nor political accountability exists in contemporary China any more than they did in dynastic China.

Francis Fukuyama