Xiv Quotes

#1. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine

Charles Dickens

#2. Great is repentance, because for the sake of one that truly repenteth the whole world is pardoned; as it is written (Hosea xiv. 4), 'I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, for mine anger is turned away from him.'" It is not said, "from them," but "from him.

Various

#3. The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.

Ludwig Von Mises

#4. Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#5. Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI.

Charles Dickens

#6. But Louis XIV had clever ministers, mainly men of humble origin chosen for their outstanding ability.

E.H. Gombrich

#7. You know that Moses was spinning like crazy in Exodus XIV through XVII when the Jewish people wanted to go back and become a place again because tramping through the desert was a bit too hard.

Joe Klein

#8. [Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV.

Horace Walpole

#9. Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness XIII. Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The

Charles Dickens

#10. Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.

Marie Antoinette

#11. Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Book the First - Recalled

Charles Dickens

#12. When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

Lytton Strachey

#13. Peter the Great imagined himself as a Russian Louis XIV

Jennifer Homans

#14. If I could have picked an era to have lived, I think I would've loved to have been one of Louis XIV's mistresses. They were so fantastic and aristocratic, and they had so much power. And he was such a renaissance man. I think I would've fit into that nicely.

Katie McGrath

#15. The cornucopia that greets you as you enter the supermarket dwarfs anything that Louis XIV ever experienced (and it is probably less likely to contain salmonella).

Matt Ridley

#16. Promises XI. A Companion Picture XII. The Fellow of Delicacy XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman

Charles Dickens

#17. The African villager with a solar powered smartphone has more access to more information than Louis XIV in the halls of Versailles.

Walter Russell Mead

#18. And he thought of Katherine XIV, who wore a black bra and also a black everything else.

John Green

#19. Louis XIV often appeared as a Roman emperor, adorned with other symbols...
The quality, number, value, and length of fabric, plumes, jewelry, and trains were all calibrated to status.

Jennifer Homans

#20. That gimcrack little desk, probably sham antique Louis XIV. She had said something to him once about there being a secret drawer in it. Secret drawer! That would not fool the police long.

Agatha Christie

#21. Purcell is a composer who had a formative influence on British music - even The Who now cite him as an influence. There's an intense, dirty harmony, but there's a Louis XIV kind of elan and style, too. He had the melancholy DNA of our national folk heritage.

Charles Hazlewood

#22. Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

Neve Campbell

#23. No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still

Charles Dickens

#24. The Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness XIII. Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps

Charles Dickens

#25. It was like the first time I visited Versailles. There was an eerieness, like I'd been there before. I don't know if I was Louis XIV or Marie Antoinette or a lowly groundskeeper, but I lived there.

Maurice Minnifield

#26. Lyon is full of temperamental gourmets, eternally engaged in a never-ending search for that imaginary, perfect, unknown little back-street bistro, where one can dine in the style of Louis XIV for the price of a pack of peanuts.

Roy Andries De Groot

#27. First things first: Marie Antoinette never said, 'Let them eat cake.' Those words were attributed to an earlier French Queen, Marie-Therese, the wife of the Sun King Louis XIV. By 1767---a year in which Marie Antoinette was still an innocent German-speaking twelve-year-old in Austria....

Kris Waldherr

#28. CHAPTER XIV COMPRISING FURTHER PARTICULARS OF OLIVER'S STAY AT MR. BROWNLOW'S. WITH THE REMARKABLE PREDICTION WHICH ONE MR. GRIMWIG UTTERED CONCERNING HIM, WHEN HE WENT OUT ON AN ERRAND

Charles Dickens

#29. To say the truth,' replied Miss Crawford, 'I am something like the famous Doge at the court of Lewis XIV.; and may declare that I see no wonder in this shrubbery equal to seeing myself in it

Jane Austen

#30. Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness XIII. Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever

Charles Dickens

#31. The modern scene in decoration is not a unified or controlled one. The unified control of the arts during the reign of Louis XIV no longer exists; today the designer is free to achieve a wider variety and more personal approach to the interior.

Van Day Truex

#32. Of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine Days

Charles Dickens

#33. How could they think Noel was hot? If this was REALLY Versailles, Noel SO would not be Louis XIV, he would be the French version of the village idiot

Sara Shepard

#34. Companion Picture XII. The Fellow of Delicacy XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The

Charles Dickens

#35. I like people who don't accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I'm not sure how much I'd have liked to meet them. I admire people who aren't circumscribed by circumstance.

Julian Fellowes

#36. No monarch placed more emphasis on the veneration of the king's body than...Louis XIV.

Jennifer Homans

#37. The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.

Billy Wilder

#38. CHAPTER XIV THE DILLSBOROUGH FEUD

Anthony Trollope

#39. CHAPTER XIV THE WINDING-UP

Charlotte Bronte

#40. The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.

Richard M. Nixon

#41. No matter how much violence or how many bad things we have to go through, I believe that the ultimate solution to our conflicts, both internal and external, lies in returning to our basic or underlying human nature, which is gentle and compassionate.

Dalai Lama XIV

#42. To train the mind, you must exercise the patience and determination it takes to shape that steel.

Dalai Lama XIV

#43. If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.

Dalai Lama XIV

#44. The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.

Dalai Lama XIV

#45. Happiness is not ready made. It comes from your own actionns

Dalai Lama XIV

#46. Human beings are children of the Earth. Whereas our common Mother Earth has tolerated our conduct up to now, she is showing us at present that we have reached the limits of what is tolerable.

Dalai Lama XIV

#47. Altruism is the surest and most effective way to bring about genuine life satisfaction.

Dalai Lama XIV

#48. When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.

Dalai Lama XIV

#49. World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.

Dalai Lama XIV

#50. The Dalai Lama took the Archbishop's hand, and then they were more eight than eighty, laughing and making jokes together as they strolled toward the terminal, yellow umbrella sheltering above them. Even

Dalai Lama XIV

#51. Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

Jennifer Donnelly

#52. Once we are able to combine a feeling of empathy for others with a profound understanding of the suffering they experience, we become able to generate genuine compassion for them. We must work at this continually.

Dalai Lama XIV

#53. Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.

Dalai Lama XIV

#54. We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness

Dalai Lama XIV

#55. Live a life that transcends your own!

Dalai Lama XIV

#56. Even if I have to do it alone, I will free all sentient beings from suffering and the causes of suffering, and set all sentient beings in happiness and its causes.

Dalai Lama XIV

#57. Rather, spend more on health and education for poor people. This is not forced socialism but voluntary compassion.

Dalai Lama XIV

#58. Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.

Dalai Lama XIV

#59. All problems, including terrorism, can be overcome through education, particularly by introducing concern for all others at the preschool level.

Dalai Lama XIV

#60. Buddhism has long had a theory of what in neuroscience is called the plasticity of the brain.

Dalai Lama XIV

#61. Lha Gyal Lo! (Victory to the gods)

Dalai Lama XIV

#62. The time one has to live is like the sun peeping through clouds,

Dalai Lama XIV

#63. The practice of cultivating altruism has a beneficial effect not only from the religious point of view but also from the mundane point of view, not only for long term spiritual development but even in terms of immediate rewards.

Dalai Lama XIV

#64. The Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff have primacy in the entire world. The Roman Pontiff is the Successor of Blessed Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, true Vicar of Christ, Head of the whole Church, Father and Teacher of all Christians.

Pope Benedict XIV

#65. In replacing religion as the final source of knowledge in popular estimation, science begins to look a bit like another religion itself.

Dalai Lama XIV

#66. Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?

Louis XIV Of France

#67. The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart.

Dalai Lama XIV

#68. Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

Dalai Lama XIV

#69. Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

Dalai Lama XIV

#70. He told me that while he was in a Chinese Communist gulag for almost eighteen years, he faced danger on a few occasions. I thought he was referencing a threat to his own life. But when I asked, "What danger?" he answered, "Losing compassion toward the Chinese.

Dalai Lama XIV

#71. When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.

Dalai Lama XIV

#72. War is massacre. It is 100 per cent negative.

Dalai Lama XIV

#73. By saying that phenomena are empty of intrinsic existence, we are declaring not their nonexistence but their interdependence, their absence of concrete reality. And the emptiness of phenomena, far from being a mental construct or a concept, corresponds to the reality itself of the phenomenal world.

Dalai Lama XIV

#74. I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort.

Dalai Lama XIV

#75. Those questions which are unexpected and complicated are the ones I appreciate most. They can help me a great deal. as I am compelled to take an interest in something that might not otherwise have occurred to me.

Dalai Lama XIV

#76. People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to change the way people think about animals. I encourage the Tibetan people and all people to move toward a vegetarian diet that doesn't cause suffering.

Dalai Lama XIV

#77. THE BASIC SOURCES OF HAPPINESS ARE a good heart, compassion, and love. If we have these, even if we're surrounded by hostility, we'll feel little disturbance.

Dalai Lama XIV

#78. [Through practice] we can get to the point where some disturbance may occur but the negative effects on our mind remain on the surface, like the waves that may ripple on the surface of an ocean but don't have much effect deep down.

Dalai Lama XIV

#79. There is more to human existence and to reality itself than current science can ever give us access to.

Dalai Lama XIV

#80. What is more, I have come to the conclusion that whether or not a person is a religious believer does not matter much. Far more important is that they be a good human being. I

Dalai Lama XIV

#81. According to my experience, the principal characteristic of genuine happiness is peace: inner peace.

Dalai Lama XIV

#82. The specific areas of science that I have explored most over the years are subatomic physics, cosmology, and biology, including neuroscience and psychology.

Dalai Lama XIV

#83. The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.

Dalai Lama XIV

#84. In both the global community and the family, human beings need harmony and cooperation, which comes through mutual respect. Altruism is the most crucial factor.

Dalai Lama XIV

#85. But for all its benefits in offering moral guidance and meaning in life, in today's secular world religion alone is no longer adequate as a basis for ethics.

Dalai Lama XIV

#86. Let distractions melt away like clouds disappearing in the sky. - MILAREPA

Dalai Lama XIV

#87. Mental tranquility, or calmness, is a very important source of happiness. An external enemy, no matter how powerful, cannot strike directly at our mental calmness, because calmness is formless. Our happiness or joy can only be destroyed by our own anger. The real enemy of joy is anger.

Dalai Lama XIV

#88. My meetings with many different sorts of people the world over have, however, helped me realize that there are other faiths, and other cultures, no less capable than mine of enabling individuals to lead constructive and satisfying lives.

Dalai Lama XIV

#89. Rather, genuine compassion is based on the rationale that all human beings have an innate desire to be happy and overcome suffering, just like myself. And, just like myself, they have the natural right to fulfill this fundamental aspiration.

Dalai Lama XIV

#90. In my view, the combination of the first-person method with the third-person method offers the promise of a real advance in the scientific study of consciousness.

Dalai Lama XIV

#91. On every level - as individuals, and as members of a family, a community, a nation, and a planet - the most mischievous troublemakers we face are anger and egoism.

Dalai Lama XIV

#92. All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction

Dalai Lama XIV

#93. Our feelings of contentment are strongly influenced by our tendency to compare.

Dalai Lama XIV

#94. True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

Dalai Lama XIV

#95. Happiness is a combination of inner peace, economic viability, and above all, world peace.

Dalai Lama XIV

#96. The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience.

Dalai Lama XIV

#97. A genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives.

Dalai Lama XIV

#98. Prana is the aspect of mobility, dynamism, and cohesion, while consciousness is the aspect of cognition and the capacity for reflective thinking. So according to the Guhyasamaja tantra, when a world system comes into being, we are witnessing the play of this energy and consciousness reality.

Dalai Lama XIV

#99. To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.

Dalai Lama XIV

#100. Living in society, we must share the suffering of our fellow citizens and practice compassion and tolerance not only toward our loved ones but also toward our enemies.

Dalai Lama XIV