Royality Quotes & Sayings

In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity. — David Halberstam

Oh, thank heavens! Someone remembered the bath mat," Enoch deadpanned. "We are saved. — Ransom Riggs

Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge? — Lloyd Alexander

...each chime pecking a pinhole in the sheeted dark until the last layers shred completely and the light pours in and in. — Monica Wood

Women give themselves to God when the devil wants nothing more to do with them. — Sophie Arnould

Didn't Notai ships usually have long names? Like Ineluctable Ascendancy of Mind Unfolding or The Finite Contains the Infinite Contains the Finite? Both of those ship names were fictional, characters in more or less famous melodramatic entertainments. — Ann Leckie

I do my intellectual work inside myself, and once I am with my fellow creatures it is more or less a matter of indifference to me whether or not they are intelligent as long as they are kind, sincere, etc. — Marcel Proust

This is the thing about life I've never really understood until now: we try so hard to control it, but bad things happen anyway. The only real control is an anti-control, a letting go. — R.A. Nelson

A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Better Counsel comes overnight. — Doris Lessing

When the sommelier Enrico Bernardo moved to Paris from Italy nearly two decades ago, the world of French gastronomy brutally rejected him. No matter that he had won the competition for best sommelier in Italy; when he asked 30 restaurateurs for work in their wine cellars, all turned him down. — Elaine Sciolino

Sarah wondered what it could be like, to live like this - life as a country dance, where everything is lovely, and graceful, and ordered, and every single turn is preordained, and not a foot may be set outside the measure. Not like Sarah's own out-in-all-weathers haul and trudge, the wind howling and blustery, the creeping flowers in the hedgerows, the sudden sunshine. — Jo Baker

He who hate royality, does not belong to royal family. — Hamzat Haruna Ribah