Queens Quotes - Page 14

• Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• the title of Queen rang sweet to my ears, child though I was. ... This idea of a crown began running in my head then like a tune, and has been running a lot in it ever since.

  Catherine the Great

  Running, Sweet, Children

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• My father built low- and moderate-income housing in Queens and Brooklyn. I learned a lot from him. But I went in a different direction. I built Trump Tower in Manhattan, the most luxurious building in the world. It's not going to be easy for my son, but maybe it shouldn't be easy. Life is, after all, a test.

  Donald Trump

  Father, Son, Different

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• [To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!

  Queen Victoria

  Speaking Up, Bishops, Married

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• From a private gentlewoman you have made me first a marchioness, then a queen; and, as you can raise me no higher in the world, you are now sending me to be a saint in Heaven.

  Anne Boleyn

  Sarcasm, Heaven, Saint

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• In the last 48 hours King Abdullah from Saudi Arabia passed away. I have a moral dilemma. The king passed away three or four days ago. Is it too soon to hit on Queen Latifah?

  David Letterman

  Kings, Arabia, Three

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• Something about the topic of consciousness makes people, like the White Queen in Through The Looking Glass, believe six impossible things before breakfast.

  Steven Pinker

  Believe, Impossible Things, Glasses

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.133, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm not worried about facing the Sacramento Queens. Write it down. Take a picture. I'm not going to talk about this all year. When I get back, there's going to be trouble.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Writing, Winning

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• The Queen of England is Defender of the Faith but the President of the United States is Defender of the Constitution, which defends all faiths.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Atheism, President, England

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• The Queen of England jumped out of a helicopter and parachuted into the stadium. What was even more amazing was when Prince Charles flew in using his ears as a hang glider.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, London Olympics, Ears

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• I have never wanted to be a queen! Cleopatra was a role, and I am an actor, so it was fun to play one, but it's not real.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Fun, Real, Play

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made Queen Margot.

  Louis Garrel

  France, Made

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• Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Mixtures, Actresses, Victoria

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• That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.

  Blaise Pascal

  Real, Character, Errors

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.95

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• Fear is concealed in smiles and flashing teeth. 'Please say you still love me,' the kings and queens are really saying. And, when they fare badly, they return to their palaces and sleep fitfully.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Kings, Fear, Sleep

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• The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Kings, Royalty, Compare

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• You don't know who the next group is that's unpopular. The Bill of Rights isn't for the prom queen. The bill of rights isn't for the high school quarterback. The Bill of Rights is for the least among us. The Bill of Rights is for minorities. The Bill of Rights is for those who have minority opinions. 

  Rand Paul

  School, Nsa, Rights

  Rand Paul's Speech on the PATRIOT Act and Government Surveillance, www.c-span.org. May 20, 2015.

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• I can't think of anybody we toured with that had more impact on us than Queen.

  Phil Ehart

  Thinking, Impact, I Can

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 25, 2015.

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• A Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person eminent in literature or otherwise who has not been the object of some infirm brain or another. But in America the evil is sadly common.

  Harriet Martineau

  America, Evil, Brain

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.317, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and our position, while Russia is advancing and will be before Constantinople in no time! Then the Government will be fearfully blamed and the Queen so humiliated that she thinks she would abdicate at once.

  Queen Victoria

  Thinking, Russia, Government

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• The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.

  Derek Jarman

  Cities, Good Man, Useless

  Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• People call me stupid for treating you like a queen, but I dont even worry `cause you`re my unforeseen.And I hope that you`ll be with me, if only in my dreams. But here you are next to me and you`re glad, or so it seems.

  Alexander Rybak

  Dream, Stupid, People

  Song: Funny Little World, Album: Fairytales, 2009

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• From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to fleeting life, and I see all about me only death. ... I write this, not quite knowing what I'm saying, but I dry the ink with the dust of Egyptian queens.

  Rachel

  Writing, Dust, Pyramids

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• Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.

  Blaise Pascal

  Tyrants, World, Opinion

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.203

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• Still and pale
  Thou movest in thy silver veil,
  Queen of the night! the filmy shroud
  Of many a mild, transparent cloud
  Hides, yet adorns thee.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Moon, Night, Clouds

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1859). “The poetical works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed”, p.10

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