Seigneurial System Quotes & Sayings

Last night in my dream a man I did not know whispered in my ear that he was disappointed with me, and that I had lost his friendship. — Robert Bly

I am commanded to go to the land of Mordor, and therefore I shall go,' said Frodo. 'If there is only one way, then I must take it. What comes after must come. — J.R.R. Tolkien

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. — W. H. Auden

Almost everyone seems concerned with the need to relax tension. However, relaxation of tension, which everyone thinks is good, is not easily distinguished from relaxing ones guard, which almost everyone thinks is bad. Relaxation, like Miltown, is not an end in itself. Not all danger comes from tension. The reverse relation, to be tense where there is danger, is only rational. — Albert Wohlstetter

Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November. — Norman Tebbit

There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion. — Benjamin N. Cardozo

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits. — Elizabeth Drew

The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided? — John Edwards

Don't flaunt your success, but don't apologize for it either. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Live by yourself and you bound to talk yourself and when ye commence that folks start it up that you're light in the head. But I reckon it's all right to talk to a dog since most folks do even if a dog don't understand and cain't answer if he did. — Cormac McCarthy

In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program. — Seth Lloyd

Life without money seems to be incomplete,but money without life is absolutely useless — ABC

My ultimate search has been for a muse. — Dominic Monaghan

Let me attain no envied wealth, let me not plunder cities, neither be taken in turn, and face life in the power of another. — Aeschylus