The Royal Succession Quotes

#1. Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.

Louisa May Alcott

#2. Matrilineal succession is the only thing that makes sense as far as I'm concerned, since you always know who the mother is, and the father could be anyone. Most of the royal dynasties of the world didn't agree with me though, which is why history is filled with idiot kings.

April White

#3. Days lived, whether full or empty, whether busy or serene, are but days gone by, and the ashes of the past weigh the same in every hand.

Maurice Druon

#4. She stared at him in that vapid, intoxicated way employed only by women under a vamp's control. Or the way I sometimes got when faced with cupcakes.
Mmm. Cupcakes.

Kiersten White

#5. I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between.

Darrell Royal

#6. I'm not an outliner. I come up with a premise and then take it from there.

Liane Moriarty

#7. No form of government has been able to establish righteousness, justice, and peace, the three elements without which we can never have continued national prosperity or international peace.

Billy Graham

#8. I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.

Britt Ekland

#9. The city Babel is the Ham-like man, who builds this city upon the earth; the tower is his self-chosen god, and divine worship. All reason-taught, from the school of this world, are the master-builders of this tower.

Jakob Bohme

#10. Don't long for "the good old days." This is not wise.

Anonymous

#11. Sometimes I think more creativity is put into muffin recipes than into the rest of society combined.

Jerry Seinfeld

#12. I've reached that final moment of editing a book - the one where the text manifests as a living breathing person and starts slugging me in the face.

Richard Due

#13. Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

Etty Hillesum

#14. I ask no favors for my sex, I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on the ground which God has designed us to occupy.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#15. There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#16. When I put on makeup, I'm not doing it to pander to antiquated patriarchal ideas of feminine beauty. I'm doing it because it makes me feel good.

Sophia Amoruso

#17. I've realized that the most important thing I can do to look good is just treat myself well, whether it's getting a nice, long massage or just lying low and not going out every single night.

Kim Cattrall

#18. My biggest fear is looking weak, girly, and pathetic.

Lucy Griffiths