Plural Form Quotes

#1. Since mediaeval times, the King had been seen as two bodies in one: a mortal entity and "the King's person," representing unending royal authority; monarchs therefore referred to themselves in the plural form as "we.

Alison Weir

#2. But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Jeff Goodell

#3. Every "yes" changes something in me. Every "yes" is a bit more transformative. Every "yes" sparks some new phase of revolution.

Shonda Rhimes

#4. Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Al Ries

#5. The foursome settled down in Kate's living room, which was furnished academically, i.e., from flea markets and yard sales.

Anonymous

#6. I'm not religiously religious, but I'm happy to call Jesus my copilot when it feels necessary.

Desmond Doane

#7. If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquility throughout the four quarters of the land ...

Nichiren

#8. There is less danger, gentlemen, in living according to a set of high moral principles than most politicians believe.

Michael Moorcock

#9. Yoga is a dance within ... and then something inside you grows so big, it spills out like champagne, that's when you dance on the outside.

Tao Porchon-Lynch

#10. The Egyptian word Pir-em-us meant to them something of great vertical height. From this the Greek form Pyramis, or the plural Pyramides was formed.

H. Spencer Lewis

#11. Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.

Evan Esar