Quotes About Tudor Times

#1. The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

#2. London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times.

William Monahan

#3. I open the book, the book moans / I cast for the times, the times are gone

Tudor Arghezi

#4. I never had vocal lessons, dance classes, or any of the things my peers had.

Ciara

#5. The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

Daniel J. Boorstin

#6. This was dangerous talk - in these enlightened times, a wise woman would never be too clever. The accusation of witchcraft had rid many men of an ugly wife and yet more women of an attractive rival.

Joss Alexander

#7. The economic expansion that began in 2001, while it has been great for corporate profits, has yet to produce any significant gains for ordinary working Americans. And now it looks as if it never will.

Paul Krugman

#8. The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.

James Altucher

#9. The concept of paying one-hundred-and-something times earnings for any company for me is just anathema. Having said that, at the end of the day, your job is to buy what goes up and to sell what goes down so really who gives a damn about PE's?

Paul Tudor Jones

#10. The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale.

Walther Von Brauchitsch

#11. Whatever problems you may face, you must know this: I do believe in you.

Lisa McMann

#12. Le Marais?'

'It's a little district in the centre of Paris. It is full of cobbled streets and teetering apartment blocks and gay men and orthodox Jews and women of a certain age who once looked like Brigitte Bardot. It's the only place to stay.

Jojo Moyes

#13. Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, May 19, 1821}

John Adams

#14. The Hemulen, moaning piteously, thrust his nose into the sand. "This has gone too far!" he said. "Why can't a poor innocent botanist live his life in peace and quiet?"
"Life is not peaceful," said Snufkin, contentedly.

Tove Jansson

#15. For every dream that you have, your week needs to match that dream.

Eric Thomas

#16. We choose our attitudes. When we let little things annoy us, we even choose to be grumpy.

Elmer L. Towns

#17. I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

Brenda Lee

#18. The four-letter word for psychotherapy is Talk.

Eric Hodgins

#19. The highest meaning and the most ultimate purpose of marriage is to put the covenant relationship of Christ and his church on display. That is why marriage exists. If you are married, that is why you are married. If you hope to be, that should be your dream.

John Piper