Privy Chamber Quotes & Sayings

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, — Charles Dickens

Ultimately I think the difference between reading the Bible and studying it is making the connections between who Jesus is and what he's done. — Mark Driscoll

Say it new or say it straight. — Sol Stein

Why write? Life is a cage of empty words. — Miriam Elia

There is a coldness to the Clave, it is true. We are dust and shadows. But you are like the heroes of ancient times, like Achilles and Jason."
"Achilles was murdered with a poisoned
arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes; the Angel knows why anyone would want to be one. — Cassandra Clare

If you develop a product that gets what the customer is trying to get done, you don't have to advertise; people will just pull it into their lives. — Clayton Christensen

The desperate truth of Lolita's story is not the rape of a twelve-year-old by a dirty old man but the confiscation of one individual's life by another. — Azar Nafisi

While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of "rags to riches" were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control. — Howard Zinn

They say she has all the gentlemen of the king's privy chamber, one after another. She don't like delay so they all stand in a line frigging their members, till she shouts, Next. — Hilary Mantel

We're all being segregated or sent to our different rooms to watch television that's geared only for adults, to be honest. There's very little fare - outside of cartoons and a few things for children (and) I guess (some reality shows like) The Voice - that can be watched by the entire family. — Michael Landon Jr.

It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew the secrets of the State and the necessity for prompt action, should despise the merely declaratory character of a good deal of Common Law process. To them we doubtless owe those four great pillars of Chancery jurisdiction, the injunction, the decree, the sequestration, and the commission of rebellion. — Edward Jenks

And i was left to ask "Did i help towards a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did i just assist in your wilful self destruction". — John Green

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking. — Katha Pollitt

I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of. — Lisa Kudrow