Jayda Amour Quotes & Sayings

The opinion that any Monarch receiveth his Power by Covenant, that is to say on Condition, proceedeth from want of understanding this easie truth, that Covenants being but words, and breath, have no force to oblige, contain, constrain, or protect any man, but what it has from the publique Sword; that is, from the untyed hands of that Man, or Assembly of men that hath the Soveraignty, and whose actions are avouched by them all, and performed by the strength of them all, in him united. But when an Assembly of men is made Soveraigne; then no man imagineth any such Covenant to have past in the Institution; for no man is so dull as to say, for example, the People of Rome, made a Covenant with the Romans, to hold the Soveraignty on such or such conditions; which not performed, the Romans might lawfully depose the Roman People. — Thomas Hobbes

I'll just sit back here and perform a few of the more acrobatic positions in the Kama Sutra. By myself, sadly. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

She strode across the moors as if distance was a personal insult. — Terry Pratchett

I may be a man, but I fight like a girl. — Andy Cohen

My first trip to Mexico was with my dad because of his Spanish records. That was back in 1958. I found a picture of me when I was eight dressed as a little senorita. — Natalie Cole

Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, "Don't you worry about being called names?" retorted, "Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me? — Alain De Botton

Synchronicity could be understood as an ordering system by means of which "similar" things coincide, without there being any apparent cause. — C. G. Jung

The story seems to begin with catastrophe but in fact began earlier and is not a tragedy but rather a love story. Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss. Loss is not felt in the absence of love. — Elizabeth Alexander

Yes, it always pays when the wife believes and admits that her husband is the wisest man in the world and that whatever he does is right. — Hans Christian Andersen

I remember every wand I've ever sold, Mr. Potter. Every single wand. It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand, gave another feather - just one other. It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its brother - why, its brother gave you that scar. — J.K. Rowling

What do you do?" I ask.

"I live."

"I live" is not an answer, until I think about it. Maybe it's the perfect answer. — Jewel E. Ann

I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered. — Evelyn Waugh

When I first came into this world, Elvis was already fat. — Jane Wagner

ruins." A flush spread up — Anne Perry