Queen Sophie Anne Quotes & Sayings

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer. — J.G. Holland

It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job. — Bear Grylls

Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection! It will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. It will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society, and leaving the company of creatures of its own society to be with you. — Theophile Gautier

How little we have, I thought, between us and the waiting cold, the mystery, death
a strip of beach, a hill, a few walls of wood or stone, a little fire
and tomorrow's sun, rising and warming us, tomorrow's hope of peace and better weather ... What if tomorrow vanished in the storm? What if time stood still? And yesterday
if once we lost our way, blundered in the storm
would we find yesterday again ahead of us, where we had thought tomorrow's sun would rise? — Robert Nathan

Historians are not by and large inclined to supernatural explanations, but they are addicted to a near equivalent - 'inevitability'. — Eric Ives

As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before. — Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

No one knows what is going to happen in the next few minutes, and yet people still go forward, because they have trust, because they have faith. — Paulo Coelho

I'm very interested in Comedia dell'Arte. — Alan Tudyk

For the Buddha of the Pali Canon, the goal is liberation: the cessation of suffering, the end of the endless hamster-wheel of dependent origination, of mental formations leading to desire leading to clinging leading to suffering and so on. Nibbana, or nirvana, was not originally conceived as some magical heavenly world, or even a permanent altered state of consciousness. It is usually described, in the early texts, negatively: as a candle being snuffed out. — Jay Michaelson

I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office. — Wallace Stevens

I had a dream. In the dream someone was critical of my newest novel The Snail's Castle. I said, "don't worry about it. If you don't like it, just throw it out the window." I awoke, grinning, with a wonderful feeling of freedom. — Mark Gordon