Madness At The Palace Quotes & Sayings

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person — Stephen King

As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell. — Elbert Hubbard

and his voice came from him in a whisper, — Pearl S. Buck

You know, in some ways, the celibacy tradition goes back to the tribe of Levi and, certainly, sacrifice and the notion of sacrifice. In the Old Testament, the shedding of blood was for a man to perform. It was not for the woman, who gave life. — Vincent Nichols

And I' declared the Sawhorse, filling an awkward pause, 'am only remarkable because I can't help it. — L. Frank Baum

At nineteen, you can make out for hours, that goal-less, amorphous melting into someone else. — Carrie Brownstein

Priest and wise man and prophet alike felt that their professional well-being was threatened by Jeremiah's singularity. Panicked, they plotted his disgrace. Their "law" and "counsel" and "words" were in danger of being exposed as pious frauds by Jeremiah's honest and passionate life. — Eugene H. Peterson

It's a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really get cities to be a great, great place to live. — Eduardo Paes

Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed. — John Fogarty

I wanted to be involved in TV and film in some capacity, so a compromise, because acting seemed unrealistic, and so risky, was to get into the production side. And it was a really fortunate, smart move looking back on it, because it gave me perspective on another side of the business. — Wentworth Miller

System theorists know that it's easy to couple simple-to-understand systems into a "super system" that's capable of displaying behavioral modes that cannot be seen in any of its constituent parts. This is the process called "emergence." — John L. Casti