Queens Quotes - Page 17

• Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.
  [Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]

  Blaise Pascal

  Use, World, Opinion

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• Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.

  Teresa of Avila

  God, Mother, Kings

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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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• 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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• [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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• I was appalled to find that the mathematical notation on which I had been raised failed to fill the needs of the courses I was assigned, and I began work on extensions to notation that might serve. In particular, I adopted the matrix algebra used in my thesis work, the systematic use of matrices and higher-dimensional arrays (almost) learned in a course in Tensor Analysis rashly taken in my third year at Queen's, and (eventually) the notion of Operators in the sense introduced by Heaviside in his treatment of Maxwell's equations.

  Kenneth E. Iverson

  Taken, Years, Needs

  "Kenneth E. Iverson with Donald B. McIntyre". Autobiographical sketch from an unfinished work, keiapl.info. (ca. 2004).

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• I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Kings, Book, Epic

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

  Louis Garrel

  France, Made

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• A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen;
  She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Needs, Royalty

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Poems”, p.317, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws.

  Jack McDevitt

  Recognition, Flaws, Virtue

  Jack McDevitt (2004). “Omega”, p.255, Penguin

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• Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Imagination, Infinity, Possibility

  "Salon de 1859". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1859.

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• Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

  Ilana Mercer

  Hands, Life And Death, Pennsylvania

  "Mobocracy vs. Monarchy". www.wnd.com. May 20, 2011.

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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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• I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic like a self-absorbed ice queen.

  Megan Fox

  Thinking, Ice Queen, Self

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• Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the Queen of Everything, I thought it was a book for adults.

  Deb Caletti

  Book, Adults, Lucky

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• It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching 'Coronation Street.'

  Amelia Warner

  Palaces, Would Be, Get Up

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• As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real.

  RuPaul

  Laughter, Real, Gay

  "T Lo Interviews The One and Only RuPaul". tomandlorenzo.com. March 03, 2009.

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• Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.

  Brian May

  Dream, Song, Ambition

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• I suppose they call me a womans director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed most of them. But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.

  George Cukor

  Names, Directors, Call Me

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• Freddie is great. At a time when everybody around was doing God knows what, Queen was making music.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  God Knows, Knows

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• I think sex is overrated. I don't have sex appeal and I know it. As a matter of fact, I think I'm rather funny looking. My teeth are funny, for one thing, and I have none of the attributes usually required for a movie queen, including the shapeliness.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Sex, Thinking, Matter

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

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• I'm the queen of festivities, that's all I can say.

  Mariah Carey

  Festivities, I Can

  "Mariah Carey Dishes On 40 Things You Need To Know About Her". Interview with Brian Galindo, www.buzzfeed.com. June 3, 2015.

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• Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call "Classical music" now.

  Pete Seeger

  Kings, Europe, Symphony

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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