Monarchies Today Quotes & Sayings

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform. — Miguel De Icaza

Heights plummeted because of a little disaster called civilization. "Heights go way down when we go into state society," says Bogin. "When Egypt conquered the Nile area, the height of peasants fell dramatically. They moved from having access to a wide variety of foods to growing what the Egyptian state demanded. Their bones show lots of deficiencies in minerals and iron." The same stunting happened repeatedly throughout history. As late as the 1800s, male Cheyenne Indians, who hunted bison and collected berries, averaged a whopping 5'10", towering above even today's Americans, not to mention General Custer's cavalry, which averaged 5'7", and the period's wealthy European monarchies. — Arianne Cohen

...What is it that he was? Was the idea he had for himself of lesser validity or of greater validity than someone else's idea of what he was supposed to be? Can such things even be known? But the concept of life as something whose purpose is concealed, of custom as something that may not allow for thought, of society as dedicated to a picture of itself that may be badly flawed, of an individual as real apart and beyond the social determinants defining him, which may indeed be what to him seem most unreal--in short, every perplexity pumping the human imagination seemed to lie somewhat outside her own unswerving allegiance to a canon of time-honored rules. — Philip Roth

The Middle East has gone through periods of turmoil before. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were revolutions. When monarchies were collapsing in a number of countries, we had radicals and we had Nasserism. Today it's a little bit more complicated. — Adel Al-Jubeir

Life is haphazard. We plan, and then we deal when the plans go awry. Control is an illusion; best intentions are the best we can do. — Anna Quindlen

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom. — Isabel Allende

You ought to use a little of that siren song on Alan, my pearl. The boy needs to loosen his cravat. — Jaclyn Dolamore

The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor. — Arthur Conan Doyle

It is the calling of each man and woman who draws breath to have a grand vision for our lives, — Brendon Burchard

But it must be that I am constantly myself and chaos - and am myself in every remnant of myself - albeit a traumatized version of myself - on the coast meeting some future twin or ghost of myself. — Sophie Podolski