First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.


James Clavell

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The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.
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Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.
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The word of God surpasses earthly orders.
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Fallibility in a leader is very trying. Isn’t it? They spill so much of other people’s blood.
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One of my first festivals was Oxygen 2006. It had this amazing lineup with the Arctic Monkeys on the...
HOZIER
You stand out like a fart in a church.
JAMES PATTERSON
All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.
P.D. JAMES
We had two hotels then - the James and the Waldorf.
ESTELLE PERRAULT
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THOMAS JEFFERSON
Then when we arrive at the house, everybody had to strip down.
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The saying "seek first the kingdom",simply means seek first a veritable philosophy of life & abundan...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
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I'll be the first one to admit that if I have conclusions based on faulty premises, then let me ...
GARY JOHNSON
The person travelling at the fastest pace does not always arrive at their destination first.
RASHEED OGUNLARU
The first units [to arrive] put a line down there and put it out,
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CLAIRE TURNER
But then, who does James (Augustine) guard?
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He was distracted by a brief surge of adrenaline as he remembered the girl’s blood-soaked body. Fl...
DAVID MCCAFFREY
But when it comes to Michael Realm, I might be a little murderous. But just a little." He pinches hi...
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SUZANNE YOUNG
First let me introduce you to James Sullivan.
ED GARLAND
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GARRY WILLS
They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON
If you are going after Jesse James, you ought to organize the posse first
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STEVE JONES
Everyone appears to be courageous until bad weathers arrive, and then we know the true leaders.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
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Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at n...
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JOHN GREEN
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive
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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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Every now and then you run into people who have the talent, and James does.
JOE ROBERTS
The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
PABLO CASALS
When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.
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Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden ...
J.K. ROWLING
Never be the first to arrive at a party or the last to go home and never, never be both
DAVID BROWN
It should make then ashamed if they don't arrive at anything this time.
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
We want to be first. We are masters of our own destiny and we want to arrive in Germany unbeaten.
ZLATKO KRANJCAR
The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.
JAMES BROWN
A boy and a girl, fated to rule all. Two will rise, and One will fall.
JAMES PATTERSON
It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
ADAM DEREK SCOTT
Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.
AYRTON SENNA
When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number.
KINKY FRIEDMAN
Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.
FREDDY FENDER
Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
JANIS JOPLIN
It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
AESCHYLUS
It was important for James to win the first bout and get off to a good start.
RANDY REIDLER
A storm in a cream bowl. - James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde,
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My eyes widened in disbelief," Wow,I never took you as a one night stand, player type of guy, Reece....
SLIM_SHADY
You probably have the right to disclose them, guaranteed by the First Amendment, but that’s no gua...
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Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said...
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One time I went down there, the local priest came round, this freakish Jesuit monk. He’d just come...
JOHN LYDON
The only other person attending who was close to her age was Father St. Laurent, a devastatingly goo...
JULIA SPENCER-FLEMING
The first thing the secretary types is the boss.
DONALD TRUMP
The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
KARL LAGERFELD
But Basquiat is the first thing I've done that I'm really proud of.
CLAIRE FORLANI
The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.
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With another shock of excitement, Harry saw Sirius give James the thumbs-up.
Sirius was loungin...
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They called you the Glue"
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Since I've moved here a Chinese takeaway on the main street has ominiously renamed itself from whate...
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He rarely saw a doorway without advancing through it as if he owned it. Since he owned a good many d...
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T.S. Elliot: “And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the pl...
DOUGLAS E. RICHARDS
Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The...
ALEXANDER POPE
Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught...
BIBLE
Night falls fast.
Today is in the past.

Blown from the dark hill hither to my door EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
I would like to arrive at a situation where the Palestinians are begging the U.S. to stop the Israel...
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CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
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Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.
VEERAPPA MOILY
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
I'll be the first one to tell you that I'm not the most casual person.
JULIE MACKLOWE
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So then he comes in and I says 'Listen, b*tch, ahm Rick James.'
DAVE CHAPPELLE
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
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And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
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Everyone takes a bad selfie - the first thing is to know that.
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The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'
ED WEEKS
The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
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Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
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To see Annie Liffey trip, tumble and caper. JAMES JOYCE
British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut....
JAMES PUREFOY
Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanat...
JAMES SINEGAL
I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, '...
JAMES BAY
I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.
JAMES PUREFOY
No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruct...
JAMES LARKIN
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singula...
JAMES THURBER
Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the broth...
JAMES SALTER
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.
JAMES MONTGOMERY
Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and br...
JAMES SUROWIECKI
Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing business at FIFA.
JAMES COMEY
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, ...
JAMES THURBER
All are equal
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and crown
Must tumble down,
And...
JAMES SHIRLEY
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating t...
JAMES THURBER
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both...
JAMES THURBER
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow...
JAMES THURBER
I am against bigness and greatness in all their forms, and with the invisible molecular moral forces...
WILLIAM JAMES
The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time an...
WILLIAM JAMES
On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb...
JAMES BEATTIE
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
JAMES BEATTIE
Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional ...
JAMES SUROWIECKI
I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.
LEBRON JAMES
Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the ...
JAMES BUCHAN
We have two programs dealing with bulletproof vests, two different systems of actually distributing ...
JAMES LANKFORD
For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.
CHERYL JAMES
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to ...
JAMES GLEICK
The fact is, an America's Cup team is more than a sailing team. It's anywhere from sort of 8...
JAMES SPITHILL
Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which c...
JAMES MADISON