Pageantries Quotes

#1. O blissful poverty!
Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns
Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace,
Her real goods; and only mocks the great,
With empty pageantries!

Elijah Fenton

#2. Boredom is not far from bliss: it is bliss seen from the shores of pleasure.

Roland Barthes

#3. The Obama damage is two-fold. First, his success relied on a coalition that likely will not survive, or at least survive at full strength, without Obama himself on the ticket. Secondly, Obama drove a significant portion of white voters away from the Democratic Party.

Byron York

#4. Faith is the root of all blessings. Believe, and you shall be saved; believe, and you must needs be satisfied; believe, and you cannot but be comforted and happy

Jeremy Taylor

#5. We have to recognise there are very few countries you will take the Games to where somebody doesn't have issues on foreign or domestic policy.

Sebastian Coe

#6. I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don't. It's the great mystery. (Steve Jobs)

Walter Isaacson

#7. If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?

Marilyn Manson

#8. Sometimes things are stronger than you give them credit for.

Kay Cassidy

#9. For the clever and lucky, all roads are open!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. I can't enjoy anything unless everybody is. If one guy is starving someplace, that puts a crimp in my evening.

Woody Allen

#11. It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who you are at the time, and that's the wonderful thingabout it.

Stanley Tucci