Majesty Quotes - Page 5

• Jason muttered "And I saw something...Really terrible." "That was Hera," Thalia grumbled, "Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon." "That's it, Thalia Grace," Said the goddess. "I will turn you into and aardvark, so help me-" "Stop it, you two," Piper said. Amazingly, they both shut up.

  Rick Riordan

  Two, Grace, Jason

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• He looked gravely at the king. "It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself. But no matter, Your Majesty. You are revealed at last." The king looked down at his nakedness and back at the captain. "Was that a joke?" he asked.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Loyalty, Kings, Giving

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• Costis bowed stiffly. “I am here to make sure that you stay in bed, Your Majesty, because if this offends you and you order me summarily executed, it is no loss. Politically speaking.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Loss, Order, Bed

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• The only cross in all of history that was turned into an altar was the cross on which Jesus Christ died. It was a Roman cross. They nailed Him on it, and God, in His majesty and mystery, turned it into an altar. The Lamb who was dying in the mystery and wonder of God was turned into the Priest who offered Himself. No one else was a worthy offering.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Easter, Offering

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• A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky -

  Emily Dickinson

  Butterfly, Sky, Aptitude

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.494, Harvard University Press

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• She has the majesty of hurricanes and explosions.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Hurricanes, Explosions

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Men, Forgive Me, Forgiving

  "Fictional character: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart". "Amadeus", www.imdb.com. 1984.

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• Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.

  Rumi

  Gathering, Half, Humans

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• Indeed Not. Stop kicking me, Daine. You understand, she is very important to a number of powerful nobles and mages in Tortall." Numair's voice was quiet, almost friendly; his eyes were hard. "Their majesties. Lady Alanna and her husband, the baron of Pirate's Swoop. Me. All of us would take iit amiss if we thought for a moment she was being trifled with, particularly by a young man who wasn't free to do the right thing by her." "Numair," Daine growled. "Can I speak to you privately for a moment? "No. Stepping on my foot won't work either. Do I make myself clear, Prince Kaddar?

  Tamora Pierce

  Powerful, Husband, Eye

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Emperor Mage”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.

  Ernest Becker

  Men, Order, Two

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• .’..all this talk about your son’s loyalty and fidelity has made me feel a sudden urge to go riding.’ His father scowled. ‘You shouldn't ride in your condition. You could fall from a horse and lose or injure the babe you carry.’ Holding Styxx’s hand in hers, she paused to smile graciously at him. ‘I never said anything about horse, Majesty. It’s your son I intend to mount and ride. Good day.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Loyalty, Horse, Father

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• Sydney, I'm so happy to see you again. If there's anything I can do for you, please let me know. And you must be Neil." "Your majesty." Neil swept her a bow so low that his forehead touched the ground. Above him, Adrian rolled his eyes. "Easy there, Lancelot," Adrian said. "I don't think bowing is required when she's in jeans and bunny slippers.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Thinking, Jeans

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.137, Penguin

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• Regarding Her Majesty, Queen Levana, has she or any of the Lunar court commented on the escape of the convict?" Kai's jaw tensed. "Oh, she's had a thing or two to say about it.

  Marissa Meyer

  Queens, Two, Court

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• However many and however great and burdensome your sins may be, with God there is greater mercy. Just as His majesty is, so likewise is His mercy.

  Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow

  Forgiveness, May, Sin

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• Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together.

  Ovid

  Life, Together, And Love

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• A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.

  Llewelyn Powys

  Wise, Nature, Men

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• Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

  Patrick Henry

  Country, Religious, Kings

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Beautiful, 4th Of July, Sky

  "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)

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• The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty.

  Pope Leo I

  Jesus, Children, Men

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• That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works---I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones.

  Teresa of Avila

  Mean, Saint, Rewards

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• Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between oblivion and the divine Untergang of infinite recession.

  Stephen Potter

  Perfection, Withdrawal, Hints

  "One-Upmanship". Book by Stephen Potter, p. 143, 1952.

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• I love the majesty of human suffering.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Suffering, Human Suffering, Humans

  La Maison du Berger (1844)

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• No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.

  James Otis

  Taxation Without Representation, Dominion, Revolution

  James Otis (1769). “A vindication of the British colonies: By James Otis, Esq; of Boston..”, p.40

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• I have commanded that my [titulary] abide like the mountains; when the sun shines its rays are bright upon the titulary of my majesty; my Horus is high upon the standard ... forever.

  Hatshepsut

  Sunshine, Egypt, Forever

  Inscriptions at Djeser-Djeseru, as quoted in "Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest" by James Henry Breasted, 1906.

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• Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.

  Rene Descartes

  Believe, Perfect, Joy

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