Palaces Quotes - Page 7

• God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Heaven, Secret

  Thomas Brooks (1859). “Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks”, p.223

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• You cannot make a cheap palace.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strategy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.187, Penguin

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• God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Garden, Perfection

  Francis Bacon, John Milton (2010). “Essays, Civil and Moral & the New Atlantis by Francis Bacon: Aeropagitica & Tractate of Education by John Milton, Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne”, p.117, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Monday, Autumn, Weekend

  "The Autumn of the Patriarch". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.nytimes.com. 1975.

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• Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

  Horace

  Grieving, Doors, Cottages

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• Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  Ducks, White, Water

  John Burnham Schwartz (2009). “The Commoner”, p.148, Vintage

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• The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.

  Umberto Eco

  Art, Doors, Romance

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.383, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fear, Book, Writing

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.13

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• Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring disappears, imagination disappears, past and future disappear, or take desire out and effort disappears and time disappears and ego disappears. Just take one thing out of the gestalt and the whole gestalt simply disappears; it cannot exist without certain things. Those are the very essentials of it - effort is one of the essentials. Hence all the great Masters of the world have taught about grace.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Imagination, Effort

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• For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the world. Nothing now remained but heaps of rubble and a stench of decaying human flesh.

  John Bagot Glubb

  College, Years, Cities

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• Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Sunset, Fire, Clouds

  'Miracles'

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• It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most remote posterity, is a work of bare utility; not a shrine, not a fortress, not a palace, but a bridge.

  Montgomery Schuyler

  Engineering, Bridges, Shrines

  Montgomery Schuyler (1892). “American Architecture”

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• He was Caesar and Pope in o­ne; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports.

  Benjamin Smith

  Army, Men, Support

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• Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.

  John Howard Payne

  Daughter, Mother, Home

  Gabriel Harrison, John Howard Payne (1875). “The life and writing of John Howard Payne”

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• Iain Dowie famously coined the phrase 'bouncebackability' to describe Crystal Palace's ability to come from behind. But this is a typical manager's idea, so optimistic. What fans are interested in is 'throwawayability': which teams toss away hard-earned leads? Now we know that 'throwawayability' exists because we proved last season that 'bouncebackability' exists (although, hilariously, Palace don't have it) and 'throw-awayability' is the flip side of it.

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• It looks tough for Palace when you see some of the results they've got coming up.

  Shaun Derry

  Football, Looks, Tough

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• There are rumours of fractions within the Palace dressing room.

  Shaun Derry

  Football, Rooms, Fractions

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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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• It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and chilly palaces for the mountains or the sea.

  Louis Bromfield

  Book, August, Long Ago

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• The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!

  Danny Kaye

  Poison, Court Jester, Chalice

  "Fictional character: Hubert Hawkins". "The Court Jester", www.imdb.com. January 27, 1956.

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• Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its prospect. The oriental tale is not too vast. Pearls dropping from trees are only falling leaves in autumn. The palace that grew up in a night merely awakens a wish to live in it. The impossibilities of fifty years are the commonplaces of five.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Horse, Children, Fall

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.60

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• Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  House, Events, Be Good

  'Table Talk' (1835) 9 May 1830

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• The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of others, and then, when social pressure builds, be blamed and scapegoated, distracting those at the bottom from the crimes of those at the top. Peasants who go on pogrom against their Jewish neighbors won't make it to the nobleman's palace to burn him out and seize the fields. This was the role of Jews in Europe. This has been the role of Jews in the United States, and this is the role of Jews in the Middle East.

  Aurora Levins Morales

  Europe, Middle East, Groups

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• I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Inspiration, Cottages, Rich

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• The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.

  Prince Andrew

  Queens, Doe, Bars

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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