Jewel In The Palace Quotes

#1. A grand explosion of culturally sanctioned greed. Presents, presents, presents.

Lora Leigh

#2. A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#3. LORD GORING: ... All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, cannot be lived without much charity. It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of this world, whatever may.

Oscar Wilde

#4. Thinking of all I had lost in the course of my life: times gone for ever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again.

Haruki Murakami

#5. He knew about alcohol, nothing about this. He could drink and he could stop. Others couldn't and drank themselves dead. Personal biochemistry. Fate. "I

Robert J. Wolfe

#6. This was a conversation I had with a so-called-fellow-trekkie the other day:
'So Picard or Kirk?' I asked.
'What?'
'Star Trek ... '
'Oh, Kirk.'
'Why?'
'I like the name better.'
I could have slammed his head against the table.

Melanie Kay Taylor

#7. By the mid-nineteen-sixties, the Soviet state was no longer promising its citizens a utopian Communist future. Under Brezhnev, the state stopped working on a vision of the future and, instead, focussed on the past,

Anonymous

#8. Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.

Bertrand Russell

#9. The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life.

Nat Friedman

#10. There is of course one thing that the French love more than anything else: a revolution. They literally cannot get enough.

@Queen_UK

#11. That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity.

Joe Nichols

#12. Attractive smile, Carol added to her list of particulars as she shook the hand.

Val McDermid

#13. I watched as my slippers reflected the torches when I was handed out of the carriage. When I looked up, I gasped. I had heard of the lovely palace of the king, but nothing had prepared me for the glittering jewel that was in front of me.

Sarah Holman

#14. The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Jean Cocteau