Crowns Quotes - Page 7

• I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.

  William J. Clinton

  America, Jewels, Presidential

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.1931, Best Books on

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• Top-shelf fiction, a Crown Royal ride into the heart of Night and New York. Con Lehane's work is reminiscent of the best of Lawrence Block, which is to say that this is very good stuff, indeed.

  George Pelecanos

  New York, Block, Heart

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• A mind content both crown and kingdom is.

  Robert Greene

  Mind, Kingdoms

  Robert Greene, George Peele (1861). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene and George Peele: With Memoirs of the Authors and Notes”, p.309

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• Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes. It wasn't pride that made me keep my heart at a distance from such terror, nor did I waste on revenge or the pursuit of power the forces that came from my selfish griefs or my accumulated joys. It was something else-my helplessness.

  Pablo Neruda

  Revenge, Selfish, Distance

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems”, p.299, Macmillan

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• Written in support of abolishing the Corn Laws, it became Elliott's most famous poem. The Peoples Anthem When wilt thou save the people Oh, God of mercy! When? Not kings and lords, but nations! Not thrones and crowns, but men! Flowers of thy heart, of God they are. Let them not pass like weeds, away Their heritage a sunless day! God save the people! When wilt thou save the people? Oh, God of mercy! When? The people Lord the people! Not thrones and crowns, but men! God save the people! Thine they are, Thy children, as thy angels fair, Save them from bondage and despair. God save the people!

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Weed, Kings, Children

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• Prayer in Jesus' name puts the crowning crown on God, because it glorifies Him through the Son and it pledges the Son to give to men 'whatsoever and anything' they shall ask.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Jesus, Prayer, Son

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.19, CCEL

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• Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the lowest, smallest, and least intelligent of the placental Mammalia. It is as if nature herself had forseen the arrogance of man, and with Roman severity had provided that his intellect, by its very triumphs, should call into prominence the slaves, admonishing the conqueror that he is but dust.

  Thomas Huxley

  Intelligent, Men, Animal

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• Take care, then, to be firmly grounded in the teachings of the Lord and his apostles so that you may prosper in all your doings both in body and in soul, in faith and in love, in the Son, and in the Father and in the Spirit, in the beginning and in the end, along with your most worthy bishop and his spiritual crown, your presbyters, and with the deacons, who are men of God.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Spiritual, Father, Teaching

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• And a face above mine, white and beautiful, eyes as large as the moon. You saved me. A hand on my cheek, cool and dry. Why did you save me? Words welling up on a tide: No, the opposite. Eyes the colour of a dawn sky, a crown of blond hair, so bright and white and blinding I could swear it was a halo.

  Lauren Oliver

  Beautiful, Eye, Moon

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• When the supreme magistrate will not execute the judgment of the Lord, those who made him supreme magistrate, under God, who have under God, sovereighn liberty to dispose of crowns and kingdoms, are to execute the judgment of the Lord, when wicked men make the law of God of none effect.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Men, Law, Wicked

  Samuel Rutherford (1843). “Lex, Rex, Or, The Law and the Prince: A Dispute for the Just Prerogative of King and People, Containing the Reasons and Causes of the Most Necessary Defensive Wars of the Kingdom of Scotland and of Their Expedition for the Aid and Help of Their Dear Brethren of England. In which Their Innocency is Asserted and a Full Answer is Given to a Seditious Pamphlet Entituled, "Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas," Or, The Sacred and Royal Prerogative of Christian Kings ; Under the Name of J.A., But Penned by John Maxwell ...”, p.96

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• Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it causes us to sugercoat problems, discount risks, and exaggerate the upside. Pessimism, on the other hand, is criticized as too downbeat, de-energizing, and generally damaging in its impact. This crown prefers realism as the neutral and objective middle ground.

  Price Pritchett

  Thinking, Impact, Hands

  Price Pritchett (2006). “Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Player, Games, Giving

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods,  are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.

  Samuel Adams

  Government, Ideas, Community

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• A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Discomfort, Ifs, Adornment

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.14, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!".

  Plutarch

  Kings, Inspiration, Water

  Pleasure not attainable according to Epicurus, 11. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Being general manager is like being the de facto owner. It's like wearing the crown of 'Restaurant Man' without being 'Restaurant Man.' You're trying to run the business, but you're running the ranch without riding the big horse.

  Joe Bastianich

  Running, Horse, Men

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• The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is the result of proletarian democracy. To the degree that the proletariat mobilizes itself and the great masses of the people, the socialist revolution is advanced. The proletariat mobilizes itself as a self-acting force through its own committees, unions, parties, and other organizations.

  C. L. R. James

  Party, Struggle, Self

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• You may wear your virtues as a crown,
  As you walk through life serenely,
  And grace your simple rustic gown
  With a beauty more than queenly.
  Though only one for you shall care,
  One only speak your praises;
  And you never wear in your shining hair,
  A richer flower than daisies.

  Phoebe Cary

  Flower, Simple, Hair

  Phoebe Cary (1882). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

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• Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted snowdrift which caps the peak of a lofty mountain there trickles into tiny rills, which hurry along north, south, east and west, and growing to rivers, at last pour their currents into three seas. From this mountain-peak the Pacific and the Arctic oceans and the Gulf of Mexico receive each its tribute. Here is a land of striking scenery.

  George Bird Grinnell

  Lying, Ocean, Sea

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• I've won a medal, but that's nothing compared to the crown I'll get in Heaven. I see a lot of people in sports who think when they reach a certain level they've got it made, but really, you can only find happiness in the Lord.

  Cindy Klassen

  Sports, Thinking, People

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• I wear this crown of thorns
  Upon my liar's chair
  Full of broken thoughts
  I cannot repair
  Beneath the stains of time
  The feelings disappear
  You are someone else
  I am still right here
  What have I become
  My sweetest friend?

  Trent Reznor

  Liars, Sadness, Broken

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• Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Grief, Sleep, Over You

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “New Poems: A Revised Bilingual Edition”, p.289, North Point Press

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• Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.

  Achy Obejas

  Pride, Joy, Shame

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• Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Home, Mean, Warrior

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", January 20, 2006.

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• He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Business, Ambition, Administration

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