Tyrannous Quotes

#1. In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past - sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.

George Eliot

#2. To how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous king is subject unto, and how they who are commonly called [Eupatridas Gk.], i.e. nobly born, are in some sort incapable, or void of natural affection.

Marcus Aurelius

#3. And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

Samuel Johnson

#5. 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

#6. To prevent government from becoming corrupt and tyrannous, its organization and methods should be as simple as possible, its functions be restricted to those necessary to the common welfare, and in all its parts it should be kept as close to the people and as directly within their control as may be.

Henry George

#7. A truly scientific philosophy will be more humble, more piecemeal, more arduous, offering less glitter of outward mirage to flatter fallacious hopes, but more indifferent to fate, and more capable of accepting the world without the tyrannous imposition of our human and temporary demands.

Bertrand Russell

#8. Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!
*It's sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it's actually very rough when you experience it.*

William Shakespeare

#9. It is excellent / To have a giant's strenght / But it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant
(Isabella)

William Shakespeare

#10. Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.

William Shakespeare

#11. If I be cruel and grow tyrannous,
Now let them thank themselves, and rue too late.

Christopher Marlowe

#12. O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw the sword and tell the truth! O race that melts the bones of the people with cowardice and with deceit! ("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast")

W.B.Yeats

#13. Nowhere does it say free speech is carte blanche to be a jerk. And don't cheapen real free speech by hijacking an honourable concept bought dearly with people's lives just to get a little spotlight. Spotlights run hot, and they can burn.

Karen Traviss

#14. I will erase every memory of every man you have ever been with, good and bad.

Megan Keith

#15. Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived.

Raymond Sokolov

#16. He's back to eating cat food around the clock. And no abdominal workouts for that one. Every day of the year is fat cat day in his book.

Lauren Mechling

#17. If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

John D. Rockefeller

#18. What color are your panties?

E.R. Pierce

#19. No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.

Pat Gillick

#20. To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.

Al Gore

#21. Unless you have chains around your ankles, I want to see your elbows pumping down the hallway now!' Isn't it nicer, however, to be asked to "drop by"?

James C. Wetherbe

#22. Violet Eden!" Steph said sternly, sucking me out of my trance. "We have your dad's Amex, a green light and no specified limit." Her mock rebuke morphed into a devious grin. "What more could a girl want as a birthday present?

Jessica Shirvington

#23. Do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is ... only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself.

Steve Goodier

#24. Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world's more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious.

Cornelia Funke

#25. New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.

Robert Benchley