Quotes & Sayings About Wanting To Be Treated Like A Princess

To talk nonsense in one's own way is almost better than to talk a truth that's someone else's — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And all her unsaid thanks so burned in her heart that all of a sudden she rose and left her tower and went out to the open starlight, and lifted her face to the stars and the place of Orion, and stood all dumb though her thanks were trembling upon her lips; for Alveric had told her one must not pray to the stars. With face upturned to all that wandering host she stood long silent, obedient to Alveric: then she lowered her eyes, and there was a small pool glimmering in the night, in which all the faces of the stars were shining. "To pray to the stars," she said to herself in the night, "is surely wrong. These images in the water are not the stars. I will pray to their images, and the stars will know." And — Lord Dunsany

Ignoring your passion is like dying a slow death ... Passion whispers to you through your feelings, beckoning you toward your highest good. Pay attention to what makes you feel energized, connected, stimulated- what gives you your juice. Do what you love, give it back in the form of service, and you will do more than succeed. You will triumph. — Oprah Winfrey

The books [poetry collections] may not sell, but neither are they given away or thrown away. They tend, more than other books, to fall apart in their owners' hands. Not I suppose good news in a culture and economy built on obsolescence. But for a book to be loved this way and turned to this way for consolation and intense renewable excitement seems to me a marvel. — Louise Gluck

The man on the rock had pitched five outs in the losing game, and had given up two runs on a single. But he'd inherited loaded bases. The story of his life. The story of all our lives. — David James Duncan

I hate doing anything in offices. I either want to be out in the world or in my own environment - and it should be your own environment that you work in. — William Monahan

I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting. — Helena Bonham Carter

The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful. — Richard Dawkins

A friend had told him that a man carried his pain like a tortoise carried his shell. — Anonymous

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously. — Jerry Garcia

We're very lucky to be able to go back and reclaim something that was a very special part of all our lives. — Roger Andrew Taylor

You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night. — Gabrielle Union

Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal