Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
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Destiny is an invention of the cowardly and the resigned.
IGNAZIO SILONE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of sear...
IGNAZIO SILONE ![]()
The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.
IGNAZIO SILONE ![]()
Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.
IGNAZIO SILONE ![]()
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a c...
IGNAZIO SILONE ![]()
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of sear...
IGNAZIO SILONE ![]()
How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.
IGNAZIO SILONE ![]()
I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer car...
IGNAZIO SILONE ![]()
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. ![]()
The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON Destiny is the name we give to the strange way our lives turn out.
MARTY RUBIN The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,
the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improve...
UMBERTO ECO ![]()
She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES ![]()
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN ![]()
What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO ![]()
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON ![]()
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON ![]()
Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
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Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA ![]()
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ![]()
She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...
ANGELA CARTER The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
KATHERINE VUCICEVIC ![]()
No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... ![]()
Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ![]()
Percy was getting tired of water.
If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po...
RICK RIORDAN ![]()
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM ![]()
Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA ![]()
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT ![]()
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON ![]()
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS ![]()
Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
KING JAMES I ![]()
My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea...
WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
WALLIS SIMPSON 
Destiny is an invention of the cowardly and the resigned. 
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of sear... 
How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience. 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... 
She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. 
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... 
What is the Other?" they ask.
I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
It's very special having a new little girl. 
Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... 
Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ... 
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. 
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... 
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... 
She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ... 
No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro... 
Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... 
Percy was getting tired of water.
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... 
Family is the most important thing in the world. 
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... 
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. 
Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. 
My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...