Crowns Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The virtuous to those mansions go
  Where pleasures unembitter'd flow,
  Where, leading up a jocund band,
  Vigor and Youth dance hand in hand,
  Whilst Zephyr, with harmonious gales,
  Pipes softest music through the vales,
  And Spring and Flora, gaily crown'd,
  With velvet carpet spread the ground;
  With livelier blush where roses bloom,
  And every shrub expires perfume.

  Charles Churchill

  Spring, Hands, Rose

  Charles Churchill (1762). “The Ghost”, p.38

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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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• 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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• They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Adversity, Rose

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem

  John Milton

  Night, Historical, Care

  John Milton (1854). “Milton's Paradise lost and Paradise regained, with notes by J. Edmondston”, p.425

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• When you look at what Star (casino) has done for Sydney over the last fifteen years.. I don't think it has done a lot. When you look at what Crown (his casino) has done for Melbourne, I think it has done an enormous amount. And there's all sorts of statistics and figures and facts that can back those things up.

  James Packer

  Stars, Thinking, Australia

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• But success shall crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracking a secure way over the pathless seas: the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Stars, Heart, Men

  Alden Nowlan, Walter Learning, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1976). “Frankenstein: the play”, Irwin Publishing

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• I was filled with rage. These same people who accuse Planned Parenthood of ‘targeting’ African-American children, they care about you only while you’re in the womb. The minute you crown, you’re on your own.

  Gwen Moore

  Children, People, African American

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• I was a heavy heart to carry
  My beloved was weighed down
  My arms around his neck
  My fingers laced to crown.
  I was a heavy heart to carry
  My feet dragged across ground
  And he took me to the river
  Where he slowly let me drown
  My love has concrete feet
  My love's an iron ball
  Wrapped around your ankles
  Over the waterfall

  Florence Welch

  Heart, Iron, Rivers

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• The picture of me is nearly finished, and I think it is magnificent.  The green and blue of the dress is splendid, and the expression as Lady Macbeth holds the crown over her head is quite wonderful.

  Ellen Terry

  Thinking, Blue, Expression

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• The May-pole is up,
  Now give me the cup;
  I'll drink to the garlands around it;
  But first unto those
  Whose hands did compose
  The glory of flowers that crown'd it.

  Robert Herrick

  Flower, Hands, Giving

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.

  John Wycliffe

  Bishops, Priests, Emperor

  "Typical English Churchmen". Book by John Neville Figgis, p. 15, 1909.

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• You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Government, Gold, Bankers

  Speech at Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 8 July 1896. In an earlier speech in the House of Representatives, 22 Dec. 1894, Bryan had said: "I shall not help crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. I shall not aid in pressing down upon the bleeding brow of labor this crown of thorns."

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• When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown

  Dave Parker

  Brown, Turns, Batting

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• What would I do with starry crowns except to cast them at His feet?

  Mary Slessor

  Feet, Missionary, Casts

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• Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

  John Milton

  Memorial, Mutual Love, Engagement

  John Milton (1869). “Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books”, p.122

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