Unremitting Despotism Quotes & Sayings

I was afraid I sounded a bit comical with all my threats. As if I needed a mustache to twirl like some sort of ancient villain. — Diana Peterfreund

What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. — William Shakespeare

Peace is a costly privilege-to be fought for, attained and won. It comes only from a conquered mind. — Paul Brunton

Fly in the sky of imagination to find the true solution. — Debasish Mridha

Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh. — Charlie Chaplin

At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off. — Joshua Bell

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading subjugation on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it: for man is an imitative animal. — Thomas Jefferson

If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away. — Val Kilmer

Gave me terrible cramps, and I had wind for days. — Diana Gabaldon

Let yourself be enchanted in small ways. — Guy Kawasaki

And the most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men; sometimes a matter of less moment, an expression or a jest, informs us better of their characters and inclinations, than the most famous sieges, the greatest armaments, or the bloodiest battles whatsoever. Therefore as portrait-painters are more exact in the lines and features of the face, in which the character is seen, than in the other parts of the body, so I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks and indications of the souls of men, and while I endeavor by these to portray their lives, may be free to leave more weighty matters and great battles to be treated of by others. — Plutarch

Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?"
"Are you calling me stupid?"
"Yes, but in a more poetic way!"
"Well, here's a poem for you. Get lost! — Colleen Houck

Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils. — Thomas Jefferson