Armadas Quotes & Sayings

Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration. — Henry Miller

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow ... — Louisa May Alcott

I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams. — Chris Ofili

The city was a machine of its own, continuously producing. We were constantly pumped out through its assembly line, in different forms or models. We came hardwired with different stories, dark secrets, vices, and defects. Over time, we fail and come to find our end, but the city continues onwards. — Cristina Martin

She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas. — Jane Austen

Indie writers who promote their book instead of writing the next book are wasting their time. The more books you've written, the more books you'll sell. That's how it works. That's how it's always worked. — Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you; Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving; Unless you can die when the dream is past - Oh, never call it loving! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I don't own a computer. I have a nine-foot piano in my home to compose my messages. Why would I want a one-foot computer to do the same thing? — Tori Amos

Self-abuse is shockingly common, especially among people who have been conditioned to believe that they are to blame when things go wrong. — Anna J. Michener

Surely it's time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies. — Richard Glover

For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us ... — Joseph Campbell

To not realize that everyone we think about affects us psychically, to not realize that life is a field of power, is criminal, in my opinion. If you are a sensitive and evolved being, it is simply criminal. — Frederick Lenz

Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours. — Maria Edgeworth

[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even nasty. But Beckford could plead sufficient "local colour" for it, and a contrast, again almost Shakespearean, between the flickering farce atrocities of the beginning and the sombre magnificence of the end. Beckford's claims, in fact, rest on the half-score or even half-dozen pages towards the end: but these pages are hard to parallel in the later literature of prose fiction. — William Thomas Beckford

A year ago, you wanted to give up because we were losing, and now, you want to give up because we're winning. — Ann Althouse