Queen Katherine Of Aragon Quotes & Sayings

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. — Zig Ziglar

Begin with the will you know before looking for the will you don't know. — Paul Silway

Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That's probably as close to immortal as we'll ever get. — David Foster Wallace

Queen Katherine, whose boys have all died, takes it patiently: that is to say, she suffers. — Hilary Mantel

To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony ... that's the science and the craft. — Quincy Jones

Vengeance is a way of clinging to what we have lost. A wedge in the Last Door, and through the crack we can still glimpse the faces of the dead. We strain towards it with all our being, break every rule to have it, but when we clutch it, there is nothing there. Only grief. — Joe Abercrombie

The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but it would be quite an ordeal, too, with all the events which go on for two days. I'd think carefully about what I was doing the day it is announced and maybe not be around, or be around, but elsewhere. — Peter Higgs

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people. — Thomas Paine

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument. — Thomas Overbury

Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you're sneaky, all the ways that you hide out, all the ways that you shut down, deny, close off, criticize people, all your weird little ways. You can know all of that with some sense of humor and kindness. By knowing yourself, you're coming to know humanness altogether. We are all up against these things. We are all in this together. — Pema Chodron

I'm sure that my compulsive eating habits began when I was a baby. — Jean Nidetch

Serious art is born from serious play. — Julia Cameron

She'd faced some hard knocks in life - one really hard one five years ago - and had managed to cultivate a protective shell for herself. But like a Godiva truffle, she was only hard in a thin outer layer. Her insides were still as tender as ever. — Becky Wade

The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it. — Carlos Castaneda