Montjoy Quotes & Sayings

A wealthy and wise man doesn't shake hands with people, he gives an helping hand. — Michael Bassey

We're clearly not going to stop global warming at this point. We've already raised the temperature of the planet one degree. We've got another degree in the pipeline from carbon we've already emitted. What we're talking about now is whether we're going to have a difficult, difficult century, or an impossible one. — Bill McKibben

It's dreadfully unfair to say things like that when this is likely the last time we will speak and we both know you don't mean what you say. It's pure selfishness that you want to keep me here. — Rachel Caine

Montjoy, the French herald, comes to the English king under a flag of truce and asks that they be permitted to bury their dead and "Sort our nobles from our common men; For many of our princes (wo the while!) Lie drowned and soaked in mercenary blood; So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs In blood of princes." (Henry V., Act 4, Sc. 7.) With equal courtesy Richard III., on Bosworth field, speaks of his opponents to the gentlemen around him: "Remember what you are to cope withal - A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways, A scum of Bretagne and base lackey peasants." (Act 5, Sc. 3.) — William Shakespeare

Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm. — Alice Cooper

Meditation is not a matter of trying to stop thinking or make your mind go blank but rather to realize when your attention is wandering and to simply let go of the thoughts and begin again. It is a way of changing our relationship to our thoughts, so we're not so consumed by them, with no sense of space. Having a newly spacious relationship to our thoughts brings both peace and freedom. — Sharon Salzberg

He watched and recorded their subversive activites with love, amusement, and detachment. — Kurt Vonnegut

But you know, sometimes people smile when they're sad. And sometimes girls who look sad are really smiling — Jenn Bennett

When I was a kid, I always envisioned myself as performing, as being in that business. It was all that I knew, so it's kind of like I'm just following in the family tradition. — Brooklyn Sudano

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security. — Alexander Herzen

Hallyu is the world's biggest, fastest cultural paradigm shift in modern history. — Anonymous

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do
we do it all the time. — Alice Munro

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog
the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see. — Corrie Ten Boom