Royaume Du Quotes & Sayings

I devoured the books because they were the rays of light peeking out from the doorframe, and perhaps past that door there was another world, one beyond the gripping fear that undergirded the Dream. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

If the six-nation forums dealing with Iran and North Korea suffer comparable failures, the consequence will be a world of unchecked proliferation, not controlled by either governing principles or functioning institutions. A modern, strong, peaceful Iran could become a pillar of stability and progress in the region. This cannot happen unless Iran's leaders decide whether they are representing a cause or a nation - whether their basic motivation is crusading or international cooperation. The goal of the diplomacy of the Six should be to oblige Iran to confront this choice. — Henry A. Kissinger

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. — J. Donald Walters

When the river rises, sometimes the only thing to do is float. — Willett Thomas

The beginning of a relationship was always the easiest. — Charles Bukowski

While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks. — Naoto Kan

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker ... I've gotten into some curious situations ... — Jamie Wyeth

Marketing effectively, in a semantic web, revolves around those three 'little' requirements: Trust, Authority, Reputation. — David Amerland

If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains. — Dean Falk

You can't take no Chinese man and give him no Puerto Rican woman and talking like they're in love and emotionally in love and physically. — Muhammad Ali

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains. — Benjamin Franklin

I revised my earlier thought about the risks of dancing. I was looking at a sprained ankle, a few pulled muscles, and maybe a homicide charge if Sasha didn't relax before the end of the rehearsal. — Seanan McGuire

Dialectics is the philosophy of opposites."
I thought about this. "How do you make a philosophy out of opposites?"
"Well, you know how people are. They like to see things in black and white? Up or down, male or female?"
She had my attention now. "Uh-huh."
"Well, dialectics says that's all bullshit. That life is not about opposites, but about finding the balance between all these extremes."
I tried to sound less interested than I actually was. "How do you do that?" I said. "Find balance, I mean?"
"By paying attention," she said. "By trying to see how everything also contains its opposite." She took a drag on her cigarette. "Because if you live your life at the extremes, you go nuts. If you want to make any sense out of the world, you have to live in the gray."
"That sounds hard," I said.
"The hell yes it's hard," she said. "People don't like gray. It makes people uncomfortable. — Jennifer Finney Boylan

I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place. — Ruth Rendell