Asbridge The Crusades Quotes & Sayings

I always wanted to be really experimental. — Grimes

Be truly present in the moment that you are in and don't let life slip by unnoticed. — Joyce Meyer

Each of us, desperately clutching his identity amid the impalatable onward pour of Time and Thought, finds only in art-and chiefly in written art- means to halt that ceaseless, cruel drift. — Christopher Morley

By now the crusaders had christened the most powerful French catapult 'Mal Voisine', or 'Bad Neighbour', while nicknaming the Muslim stone-thrower that targeted it for conter-bombardment 'Mal Cousine', or 'Bad Relation'. — Thomas Asbridge

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. — Quentin Crisp

Yes, whatever happened, happened; but what happens now is up to you. You can respond from ego, ensuring pain, or you can respond from spirit, ensuring a miracle. — Marianne Williamson

walking slowly along the alleys and through the passages, up and down stairways, deeper into the older part, unchanged in generations. Water dripped off rotting eaves, the stones were slimy, wood creaked, doors hung crooked but fast closed. People moved ahead of him and behind like shadows. One moment it would be strange, frightening and bitterly infectious, the next he thought he recognized something. He would turn a corner and see exactly what he expected, a skyline or a crooked wall exactly as he had known it would be, a door with huge iron studs whose pattern he could have traced with his eyes closed. — Anne Perry

Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse. — Twyla Tharp

Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate. — Seneca.

I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had. — Douglas Adams

If the leader of the organization can't clearly articulate WHY the organization exists in terms beyond its products or services, then how does he expect the employees to know WHY to come to work? — Simon Sinek