Top 13 Self Imposed Exile Quotes
#1. Each member of this shadowy network resented the others, who were irritating reminders that nothing was more American, whatever that means, than fleeing the American, whatever that is, and that their soft version of self-imposed exile was just another of late empire's packaged tours.
Ben Lerner
#2. He thought: Jessica, mother of Muad'Dib and grandmother of these royal twins, returns to our planet today. Why does she end her self-imposed exile at this time? Why does she leave the softness and security of Caladan for the dangers of Arrakis?
Frank Herbert
#3. [To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.
Elizabeth I
#4. For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.
James T. Walsh
#5. And bourbon's like the truth, you know." "How's that?" "The first taste burns, but once you get used to it, it's the only thing you want in your mouth." Miss
Tiffany Reisz
#6. It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different.
Nancy Horan
#7. All tyrants were harsh, but fire was more ungovernable than most.
Gregory Maguire
#8. Plays are a pretty big commitment. It takes a minimum of three months out of your life, really. And if you have family or kids, then at least during the rehearsal period for five or six weeks, you kind of say goodbye to everybody.
Philip Baker Hall
#9. The ... office was decorated in early American Earth Mother, with spider plants, hemp wall tapestries, and beeswax candles.
Karen Neches
#10. This would become a lifelong pattern, sitting in my comfort zone high above the world in some sort of self-imposed exile.
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#11. She wasn't always a demon," he finished. "She was my mother once.
J.R. Rain
#12. I'm in self-imposed exile, cradled between split branches, in my favorite tree in the woods behind school. I've been coming here every day at lunch, hiding out until the bell rings, whittling words into the branches with my pen, allowing my heart to break in private.
Jandy Nelson
#13. Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.
Ingmar Bergman
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