Thrones Quotes - Page 20

• It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Vanity, Sitting, World

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• O God, make us desperate, and grant us faith and boldness to approach Your throne and make our petitions known, knowing that in doing we link arms with Omnipotence and become instruments of Your eternal purposes being fulfilled on this earth.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Prayer, Omnipotence, Knowing

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2009). “A Place of Quiet Rest: Finding Intimacy with God Through a Daily Devotional Life”, p.246, Moody Publishers

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• Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in his universe is linked to that which lies nearest the Throne.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Beautiful, God, Running

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• Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

  Bryan Procter

  Smile, Summer, Night

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• Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Growing Up, Progress, Soil

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• Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its origin; we know not its end. And the presumption, if not the degradation, rests with those who place upon the throne of the universe a magnified image of themselves, and make its doings a mere colossal imitation of their own. Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Discovery

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• Someone's running your life. Most of us are on the throne of our own lives. Jesus wants to sit on the throne of your life.

  Steve Farrar

  Running, Jesus, Want

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• True prayer is an approach of the soul by the Spirit of God to the throne of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Soul, Spirit

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Robert Hall (1993). “The Power of Prayer in a Believer's Life”, p.15, YWAM Publishing

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• It is the Happiness of his Church that, when the Powers of Earth and Hell combine against it...that the Throne of Grace is of the easiest access-and its Appeal thither is graciously invited by the Father of Mercies, who has assured it, that when his Children ask Bread he will not give them a Stone.

  John Hancock

  Children, Father, Giving

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• I want to do character driven epic storylines with Throne of Atlantis kicking off.

  Geoff Johns

  Character, Epic, Kicking

  Source: www.ign.com

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• But the quality of writing in the series [game of Thrones] is paramount. That's probably why all of us are involved in this and all of us are quite so loyal to it, because we don't have to expend a lot of energy trying to make a silk purse out of a pig's ear. The quality of the writing is really good, and that's what makes playing a character so enjoyable, whether he's heroic or villainous.

  Charles Dance

  Writing, Character, Pigs

  "Game of Thrones, Charles Dance interview: ‘I treat Peter Dinklage appallingly’". Interview with James Lachno, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 31, 2013.

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• We get a successful television series or something, and next season they give you less time and less money, which is something I've never really understood. That doesn't happen with Game of Thrones.

  Charles Dance

  Successful, Games, Giving

  "Game of Thrones, Charles Dance interview: ‘I treat Peter Dinklage appallingly’". Interview with James Lachno, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 31, 2013.

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• Game of Thrones. I'm all about it. I watch Arrow.

  Steven R. McQueen

  Games, Arrows, Watches

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• They talk about a lot of different things, but I think they definitely have the same school of thought as my husband [Games Of Thrones creator David Benioff], which is that the difference between being a writer and not being a writer is finishing.

  Amanda Peet

  Husband, School, Thinking

  "Amanda Peet and Steve Zissis discuss what the second season holds for Togetherness". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2016.

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• Such was the end of Philip (II, king of Macedonia) ...He had ruled 24 years. He is known to fame as one who with but the slenderest resources to support his claim to a throne won for himself the greatest empire among the Hellenes (Greeks), while the growth of his position was not due so much to his prowess in arms as to his adroitness and cordiality in diplomacy.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Kings, Years, Support

  "Histories" by Diodorus Siculus, 16.95.1-2,

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• Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie Of thy Lord's hand, the object of His eye! When I behold thee, though my light be dim, Distinct, and low, I can in thine see Him Who looks upon thee from His glorious throne, And minds the covenant between all and One.

  Henry Vaughan

  Eye, Sunshine, Light

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• That which concerns the mystery of the King's power is not lawful to be disputed; for that is to wade into the weakness of Princes, and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit in the throne of God.

  King James I

  Kings, Weakness, Wade

  Speech in the Star Chamber, June 1616.

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• There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the palace becomes drab. The gems in the diadem and upon the fingers of the women sparkle drearily like the ice of white seas; the speech of men is as the empty rattle of a jester's bell and the feel comes of things unreal; even the sun is copper in the sky and the breath of the green ocean is no longer fresh.

  Robert E. Howard

  Kings, Ocean, Men

  Robert E. Howard (2006). “Kull: Exile of Atlantis”, p.83, Del Rey

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• Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, World

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.385

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• Cersei in Game of Thrones is quite solid and stiff.

  Lena Headey

  Games

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• Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers--
  If these magnific titles yet remain
  Not merely titular.

  John Milton

  Titles, Dominion, Virtue

  John Milton (1749). “Poetical works. A new ed. with notes of various authors by Thomas Newton. (With copper-plates.)”, p.249

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• I certainly relate to Ygritte in the fact that she is so strong and also ruthless as well and I feel that especially within Game of Thrones, I think that as a show, it is one of the frontrunners for showing dominant female characters and making sure that men answer to women rather than the other way around.

  Rose Leslie

  Strong, Character, Men

  "Game Of Thrones: Access' Countdown To Season 3 Q&A - Rose Leslie Talks Ygritte". Interview with Jolie Lash, www.accesshollywood.com. March 5, 2013.

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• In His discourses, His miracles, His parables, His sufferings, His resurrection, He gradually raises the pedestal of His humanity before the world, but under a cover, until the shaft reaches from the grave to the heavens, whenHe lifts the curtain, and displays the figure of a man on a throne, for the worship of the universe; and clothing His church with His own power, He authorizes it to baptize and to preach remission of sins in His own name.

  Edward Thomson

  Men, Names, Heaven

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• To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those princes who understood their own interest and that of the people, it may be defined an absolute monarchy disguised by the forms of a commonwealth. The masters of the Roman world surrounded their throne with darkness, concealed their irresistible strength, and humbly professed themselves the accountable ministers of the senate, whose supreme decrees they dictated and obeyed.

  Edward Gibbon

  Government, People, History

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.108, e-artnow

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• The distinctions of personal merit and influence, so conspicuous in a republic, so feeble and obscure under a monarchy, were abolished by the despotism of the emperors; who substituted in their room a severe subordination of rank and office, from the titled slaves who were seated on the steps of the throne, to the meanest instruments of arbitrary power.

  Edward Gibbon

  History, Office, Arbitrary

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.325, Modern Library

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