Throned Quotes

#1. I cannot be content with less than heaven; Living, and comprehensive of all life. Thee, universal heaven, celestial all; Thee, sacrjd seat of intellective time; Field of the soul 's best wisdom : home of truth , Star-throned.

Philip James Bailey

#2. Then I shall tell you. It is because you are to me the chief woman in the world - the throned lady whose colours I carry between my heart and my armour.

George Eliot

#3. Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.

William Hazlitt

#4. Bow down: I am the emperor of dreams;
I crown me with the million-colored sun
Of secret worlds incredible, and take
Their trailing skies for vestment when I soar,
Throned on the mounting zenith, and illume
The spaceward-flown horizons infinite.

Clark Ashton Smith

#5. It was ... the Great White God de-throned, I suppose. Because we did, we quite unselfconsciously assumed we were the measure of all things. That was how we approached them. And suddenly I saw that we weren't the measure of all things, but that there was no measure.

Pat Barker

#6. Time is not kind to everything.

Robbie Robertson

#7. Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

Joshua Foer

#8. Each and every artist must embody these two qualities, truth and beauty. Not beauty in the sense recognised by the public at large, but from the point of view of aesthetics as understood by the artist himself.

Karim Raslan

#9. I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager.

Kurtis Blow

#10. The other is how I could have loved Cristine so fiercely, who was such a world champion bitch, who even came after me once with a kitchen knife.

Peter Heller

#11. Success is a plant that needs to be watered every day. Without water; if you fail to tend to it, it dies. And on that waterless soil, from the withered stalks of abandoned success, almost imperceptibly, the weed of failure is born ...

Mauricio Chaves Mesen

#12. You can always control the controllable, and you can never control the uncontrollable.

Ben Tolosa

#13. Boyd aint goin nowhere. If I am he is. Boyd's a juvenile. They aint goin to turn him over to you. Hell. You're a juvenile yourself. I aint askin.

Cormac McCarthy

#14. I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.

Mary Meeker

#15. New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

Zig Ziglar

#16. Whilst the ships stayed, our allowance was somewhat bettered, by a daily proportion of biscuit, which the sailors would pilfer to sell, give, or exchange with us for money, sassafras, furs, or love.

John Smith

#17. I don't want somebody sucking up to me because they think I am going to help their career. I want them sucking up to me because they genuinely love me.

Michael Scott

#18. The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them.

Douglas Adams

#19. People say, "Do you know how much a million dollars is?" I don't have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?

Billie Jean King