Royden Quotes

#1. Vimes' meeting with the Patrician ended as all such meetings did, with the guest going away in possession of an unfocused yet very nagging suspicion that he'd only just escaped with his life.

Terry Pratchett

#2. It's been a good hockey life for me anyway.

Peter Forsberg

#3. The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.

Maude Royden

#4. It is possible for science to make the world like the Garden of Eden! Amen. But it is also possible, and sometimes it seems more probable, that science will make the world a very good imitation of hell.

Maude Royden

#5. One single letter cures the blank page.

Stephanie Ayers

#6. use fear; don't fear fear

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#7. When one is loyal to the truth, we say he is a person of integrity. When one is loyal to the truth under intense opposition, we say he is a person of great integrity.

Royden G. Derrick

#8. For storms will rage and oceans roar,
When Gabriel stands on sea and shore,
And as he blows his wondrous horn,
Old worlds die and new be born.

Deborah Harkness

#9. Problems form an important part of our lives. They are placed in our path for us to overcome them, not to be overcome by them. We must master them, not let them master us. Every time we overcome a challenge, we grow in experience, in self assuredness, and in faith.

Royden G. Derrick

#10. It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which suggests a difference in the spiritual ideals, the spheres, or the potentialities of men and women.

Maude Royden

#11. American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.

Tony Judt

#12. If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.

Maude Royden

#13. I love to write poetry.

Shayne Ward

#14. No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.

Dorothy Day

#15. for what man does not love that which he himself has built?

Louis L'Amour

#16. People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

Frederik Pohl

#17. Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal.

Maude Royden

#18. We cannot break God's laws - but we can break ourselves against them.

Maude Royden

#19. We are not required to go through [Jesus'] trials, but we are required to be willing to go through them. To prove that we are willing to do so, we must go through our own trials and remain faithful.

Royden G. Derrick

#20. The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.

Maude Royden

#21. War may claim for itself the power to destroy and to clear the ground. It can never construct or create. It is not the means by which ideals are imposed. There is ultimately no way of combating a wrong idea but the setting forth of a right one.

Maude Royden

#22. Buildings should be good neighbours.

Paul Thiry

#23. The corruption of the best is the worst ...

Maude Royden

#24. The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.

Maude Royden

#25. I've never really been contained to just one style. My listening choice has always been so mixed up.

Myles Kennedy