Quotes & Sayings About Rising Up After Defeat

In the humanist world following Erasmus, man is at the centre of the universe. Man becomes largely responsible for his own destiny, behaviour and future. This is the new current of thought which finds its manifestation in the writing of the 1590s and the decades which follow. The euphoria of Elizabeth's global affirmation of authority was undermined in these years by intimations of mortality: in 1590 she was 57 years old. No one could tell how much longer her golden age would last; hence, in part, Spenser's attempts to analyse and encapsulate that glory in an epic of the age. This concern about the death of a monarch who - as Gloriana, the Virgin Queen - was both symbol and totem, underscores the deeper realisation that mortality is central to life. After the Reformation, the certainties of heaven and hell were less clear, more debatable, more uncertain. — Ronald Carter

A small unkindness is a great offence. — Hannah More

My job as the director is to make that as authentic as I can and not to disturb the revelry. — Scott Hicks

LinkedIn was an amazing deal for us to do because of their mission. — Satya Nadella

Women have a predestination to suffering. — Bela Lugosi

And I became fixated, too, upon Katharine Hepburn's famous Fred and Ginger theory: He gives her class, she gives him sex. Was this a general rule? Did all friendships - all relations - involve this discreet and mysterious exchange of qualities, this exchange of power? — Zadie Smith

Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from our community and built their community but didn't offer anything back to our community. — Louis Farrakhan

I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning. — Olivia Wilde

If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration will afford a strong argument for the permanent tenure of judicial offices, since nothing will contribute so much as this to that independent spirit in the judges which must be essential to the faithful performance of so arduous a duty. — Alexander Hamilton

There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care. — Adam Brody

Is Jacob paying you for all the P.R., or are you a volunteer? — Stephenie Meyer

Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat. — Giada De Laurentiis