Abdicating The Throne Quotes & Sayings

I don't care what anyone says, the stars give you hope on a dark and gloomy night. — Nikki Rowe

It has been acceptable for some time in America to remain "wound identified" (that is, using one's victimhood as one's identity, one's ticket to sympathy, and one's excuse for not serving), instead of using the wound to "redeem the world," as we see in Jesus and many people who turn their wounds into sacred wounds that liberate both themselves and others. — Richard Rohr

We need to develop new strategies to overcome every challenge. And by faith we can graciously triumph. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I desired you before, but I never loved you until this life. — Kresley Cole

Grace Taylor, I am going to kiss you right now and you are not going to run away from me, because you have no excuse now. Then you are going to go back upstairs to be and all you are going to think about are my fucking lips on yours and nothing else. — Christine Zolendz

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much. — Chris Van Allsburg

People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power. — Michelle Shocked

Joblessness gives you the resource through which you can create a new you — Sunday Adelaja

While Cinder couldn't imagine him abdicating his throne and setting off on a lifetime of space travel and adventure, it was rather adorable watching him try to fit in. — Marissa Meyer

She nods and the elephant in the room throws back its head and trumpets so loud I think the roof might come off. — Sharon Bolton

Men must always have distinguished (e.g. in judicial matters) between hearsay and seeing with one's own eyes and have preferred what one has seen to what he has merely heard from others. But the use of this distinction was originally limited to particular or subordinate matters. As regards the most weighty matters the first things and the right way the only source of knowledge was hearsay. — Leo Strauss

The problem with unintended consequences isn't with the consequences, it's with the unintended. Just because you didn't' intend for something to happen doesn't mean you didn't want it to. — Charles Yu

What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction. — Jay Electronica

Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is much more complicated than a Manhattan bond trader's. — John McWhorter

One step actually taken achieves more than a lifetime of planning. — Marty Rubin