Palaces Quotes - Page 5

• The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the form of cathedrals and palaces that Church and State speak and impose silence on the multitudes.

  Georges Bataille

  Silence, Church, Dams

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• You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope

  Bob Dylan

  Rays, Safe, Vipers

  Song: Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight, Album: Infidels

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• I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When the Beloved visits us in the night, He turns our chambers into the vestibules of His palace halls. Earth rises to heaven when heaven comes down to earth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Distance, Lying, Night

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• If man had written the Gospels - say Shakespeare or Eugene O'Neill - the story of the gospel would have been drastically different. They would have placed the prince in halls and palaces and had him walking among the great. They would have had him surrounded by the important and significant of the time. Potentates and kings would have been His companions. But how sweetly common was the real God-man; though He had inhabited all eternity, He had come down and was subject to the rising and the setting of the sun.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Kings, Real, Men

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• Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wise, Kings, Pigs

  Hilaire Belloc (1958). “Letters”

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• Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Dwelling Place, Culture, Ease

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• One person I do feel a little sorry for, though, is the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most important clergyman in Britain and he's only got two lousy palaces to live in. What sort of life is that for a man of God? I bet if Jesus came back, even he'd be embarrassed for him; I bet he wouldn't be able to look him in the eye.

  Pat Condell

  Jesus, Sorry, Eye

  YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"Religion In The UK", www.youtube.com. April 17, 2007.

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• The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Fit, Beast

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.207, Library of Alexandria

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• In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth. Someone once told me, "Even when building the imperial palace, they always leave one place unfinished." In both Buddhist and Confucian writings of the philosophers of former times, there are also many missing chapters.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Buddhist, Writing, Giving

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• If you have good neighbours, you can bear living in a bad cottage; if you have bad neighbours, you can't bear living even in a good palace!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Cottages, Bears, Neighbour

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• Life isn't perfect and that's the kind of world where Jesus showed up. He wasn't born in a palace on a perfect day. He was born in the middle of the night during tax season to an unwed couple in a stable or a cave in a sheep field. That was God's way of showing us that nothing is perfect. Life is chaotic. It's messy. That's what Jesus was stepping into.

  Louie Giglio

  Jesus, Couple, Night

  "A conversation with pastor, author and songwriter Louie Giglio". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• The life of Lincoln should never be passed by in silence by young or old. He touched the log cabin and it became the palace in which greatness was nurtured. He touched the forest and it became to him a church in which the purest and noblest worship of God was observed. His occupation has become associated in our minds with the integrity of the life he lived. In Lincoln there was always some quality that fastened him to the people and taught their to keep time to the music of his heart.

  David Swing

  Integrity, Heart, Greatness

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• I went to Buckingham Palace and I wanted to take something from there, but there was nothing good to steal, although I did nick some serviettes with ER and Her Majesty on them from the Jubilee celebrations.

  Konnie Huq

  Jubilee, Majesty, Celebration

  "Konnie Huq: If I show my cleavage people make such a fuss". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 30, 2008.

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• It would be interesting to go to Buckingham Palace. I'd just like to see what goes on - I'm not bothered about hearing any political chat.

  Pauline Quirke

  Interesting, Political, Would Be

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?

  Petrarch

  Construction, Pantheon, Emperor

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• As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Character, Men, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• The White Palace was pretty impressive. Very impressive, in fact. The day to day running of the set was everybody showed up for work. They are seasoned filmmakers over there. They have an infrastructure for filmmaking, which is very healthy. It's small, but they were tenacious, polite, timely.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Running, White, Healthy

  Source: collider.com

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• You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.

  Mark Twain

  Aim, Sewers

  Mark Twain (2014). “The American Claimant”, p.14, Jazzybee Verlag

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• My good friend Paul Shaffer and I are going to continue in show business. Next month Paul and I will debut our new act at Caesar's Palace with our white tigers.

  David Letterman

  Good Friend, White, Next

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• Watch how the propaganda unfolds once the bombing is over and the Americans are running Baghdad and their spin machine. There will be the discovery of Saddam's secret arsenal, probably in the basement of one his palaces.

  John Pilger

  Running, Discovery, Secret

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• Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.

  Joseph Warren

  Lonely, Liberty, Cottages

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• Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.

  John Milton

  Keys, Hands, Golden

  'Comus' (1637) l. 12

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• Woman dwell always in the palace of unpalatable truth and never by any chance is there a magic talisman to save them from their destiny. Speech is their ultimate need. We men exist for them only in so far as we can be described.

  William McFee

  Destiny, Men, Magic

  William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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• The Russians were all really accommodating, and that made it really special. To be allowed in Catherine's Summer Palace...Lily [James] and I have this scene where we fall in love and we waltz up and down this enormous gold hall with thousands of candles and a live orchestra and 300 Russian extras. To do those scenes in situ really meant it was a once-in-a-lifetime job.

  James Norton

  Summer, Falling In Love, Jobs

  "The Russian Prince". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.

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• When you're filming in Russia in Catherine's Palace, and you're in the real place where the Tsar's ball really happened, all those years ago, it does so much of the work for you. It's so vivid. You escape into this different time through the costumes, the sets and the atmosphere.

  Lily James

  Real, Russia, Years

  Source: collider.com

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