Top 18 Janissary Quotes
#1. The government here is entirely in the hands of the army. The Grand Signor [Ottoman Sultan], with all his absolute power, is as much a slave as any of his subjects, and trembles at a janissary's frown.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
#2. Hunt was the janissary of a dead vernacular.
Erik Larson
#3. She would never be the best Janissary, because she would never be a Janissary. She could never be powerful on her own, because she would always be a woman.
Kiersten White
#4. At the entrance of this street, a Janissary was pinned to a wooden door by an eight-foot-long spear, which Jack looked on as proving that Yevgeny had passed by there recently.
Neal Stephenson
#5. I just want to sleep. The whole point of not talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make it go away. It won't. I'll need brain surgery to cut it out of my head.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#6. God had assigned us with our dreams, visions and callings before the foundations of the earth; it's up to us to allow ourselves to have an access to those dreams, visions and callings.
Euginia Herlihy
#7. There are no ghettos in Heaven,
no suburbs in Hell,
no gutters in Heaven,
but you'll find repentant gangsters.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#8. I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.
Erin Morgenstern
#9. I have friends from rock stars to Rastas; I don't even know what an unexpected friend is.
Rihanna
#10. I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.
William Shatner
#11. Just like the front and the back of the hand, being and action are distinct yet inseparable.
Werner Erhard
#12. Fat free usually means it's loaded with sugar!
Jason Vale
#13. The soul speaks to you in feelings. Listen ... follow [and] honour your feelings.
Neale Donald Walsch
#15. I like relationships on TV between men and women, when they're not just flirtatious and sexual.
Trieste Kelly Dunn
#16. I tried to exploit such freedom to create those drawings like if I was a boy. I tried to draw with that freedom and that love that I remember from being a child and spending a day drawing without worrying about whether what I'm drawing is real or strange.
Alex Abreu
#17. Mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and
and in love before they're born.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#18. He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us.
David Jones