Castles Quotes - Page 2

• Knowledge can protect you much better than a strong castle!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Strong, Protect You, Protect

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• Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to 'come off conqueror.' It is fought every day. In fact, it is a continuing process which commenced a long, long time ago.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Land, Long, Battle

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• Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen. Know all things to be like this: As the moon in a bright sky In some clear lake reflected, Though to that lake the moon has never moved. Know all things to be like this: As an echo that derives From music, sounds, and weeping, Yet in that echo is no melody. Know all things to be like this: As a magician makes illusions Of horses, oxen, carts and other things, Nothing is as it appears.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dream, Buddhist, Horse

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• Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.

  Jack Gilbert

  Dream, Angel, Heart

  Jack Gilbert, “Horses At Midnight Without A Moon”

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• 99.99% of all castles in America are located in fish tanks.

  Demetri Martin

  America, Tanks, Fishes

  Demetri Martin (2011). “This Is a Book”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It's in the lease.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Country, Humorous

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• Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Bridges, Enemy, Building

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• Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.

  Charles Dickens

  Weed, Nature, Wall

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Charles Dickens: The Complete Christmas Novels & Tales (Illustrated): 30 Classics in One Volume: A Christmas Carol, The Battle of Life, The Chimes, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree, Doctor Marigold, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations and more”, p.3653, e-artnow

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• To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

  Richard Whately

  Passion, Air, Words Of Wisdom

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• Have fun storming the castle!

  William Goldman

  Fun, Having Fun

  William Goldman (1995). “William Goldman: Four Screenplays with Essays”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be.

  Anne Lamott

  Ocean, Heart, Artist

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• A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Air, Building, Sigh

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• A man's head is his castle.

  Joseph Heller

  Men, Mind, Human Body

  Joseph Heller (1974). “Something Happened”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

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• If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.

  Anne Lamott

  Courage, Inspirational Life, Doors

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.198, Anchor

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• Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Air, Easy, Building

  The Master Builder act 3 (1892)

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• Wishing is good for us.
  Daydreams, fantasies, castles in the air, and aspirations
  All drive us forward,
  Impel us to make things happen.
  They also tell us a lot about ourselves.
  Our wishes come straight from our core,
  And they are loaded with vital information
  About who we are and who we can become.
  Keeping track of our wishes
  Helps us tap into the energy
  That propels us to go after our happiness.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Air, Track, Wish

  Barbara Ann Kipfer (2013). “The Wish List”, p.8, Workman Publishing

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• Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.

  David Soul

  Home, Identity, Possibility

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Thinking, Way, Cold

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, 1990.

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• A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Science, Men, Air

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• Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Fall, Sea, Sand

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• The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lakes, Sky, Black

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• You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky

  Banksy

  Sky, Needs, Planning

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• Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  "Readers recommend: songs about books" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2015.

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• Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Mom, Daughter

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• No, I do my torturing in the dungeon like any other respectable castle owner.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Dungeons, Owners, Respectable

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