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Sir Philip Sidney

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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (SYDNEY) Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle of our age, Sir Philip Sidney.
RICHARD CAREW Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Your tale sir, would cure deafness
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a
MICHAEL H. DANSBURY Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows.
WILLIAM WHITEHEAD How goes it now, sir? This news which is called true is so like an old tale that the verity of it ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po...
TERRY PRATCHETT Fairy Tale: A horror story to prepare children for the newspapers.
UNKNOWN One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces.
IVAN STOIKOV Something wrong with your child? Feed them and put them to bed. Something wrong with your man? Feed ...
SUSAN CARTWRIGHT While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.
JEFFREY ARCHER The horrid tale of perjury and strife,Murder and spoil, which men call history.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT And now dear little children, who may this story read,
To idle, silly flattering words, I pray...
MARY HOWITT It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equip...
NEIL GAIMAN Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exis...
DIANA WYNNE JONES I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ...
BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL He looked like a thing broken loose from a bedtime story, something unreal ... The giant watched her...
R.J. LAWRENCE Tale as old as time,
DANIELLE L. JENSEN Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY From within the abysmal depths of a heart, the soul echoes A Lover's Tale of an Eternal Love (Throug...
SANDEEP N. TRIPATHI Every time he raised his hands on her. He killed a prince from a fairy tale somewhere deep within he...
AKSHAY VASU Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He...
BILL DEDMAN All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove i...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE Girl! I'm here to make you look Fa-Bu-Lous!
FAKE CINNA The fairy tale belongs to the poor...I know of no fairy tale which upholds the tyrant, or takes the ...
ERIK CHRISTIAN HAUGAARD My life is a fairy tale. You could not make it up.
ELIO DI RUPO As with the Arthurian tale it evokes,
RONALD STEEL Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.
LAURA WHITCOMB If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others.
SEEMA BRAIN OPENERS My parents told me any and every fairy-tale from all around the world. I usually gravitated towards ...
SARAH J. MAAS The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been going on a long tim...
GILES FODEN your best men are
drunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not t...
KATE FORSYTH My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have ...
JACK D. ZIPES The fairy tale of film—created with the magic of animation—is the modern equivalent of the great...
WALT DISNEY COMPANY Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Once in a while, in the middle of an ordinary life… love gives us a fairy tale.” “It’s how I...
MELISSA BROWN There is but one world and everything that is imaginable is necessary to it. For this world also whi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken...
BIBLE And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the ...
FERDOWSI It was a comet. The boy saw the comet and he felt as though his life had meaning. And when it went a...
LUCAS SCOTT The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
CHARLES DE LINT And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fic...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We looked real slow with the bats tonight. Being outside for the first time with live pitching, that...
BRAD POCKLINGTON Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of...
ANDREW V. MASON Philip had a practical outlook and he grew impatient with the theories which resulted in no action.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Ladies,Please dress how you would like to be approached and talked to. Don't dress like a hoe and ex...
UNKNOWN Interdependent Thinking is a true system view of the world.
PEARL ZHU „Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund
MARLEN HAUSHOFER You tell a tale to a dead man.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac...
KAREN A. ANDERSON Listen, every one That listen may, unto a tale That's merrier than the nightingale. - He...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser...
J.D. SALINGER Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no...
J.D. SALINGER You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ...
J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif...
J.D. SALINGER In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said,...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY It's a very dark tale of greed, betrayal and revenge in Bulgaria - all with a brain transplant!
BRUCE CAMPBELL But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young me...
BIBLE Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.
UNKNOWN The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.
CHINESE PROVERB And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say ...
BIBLE Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN The fireplace is warm nook Penina Mezei’s house in fairy tale in which the "fairy-tale-in Jukebox"...
PENINA MEZEI As any parent, teacher, or librarian knows, there is no richer experience than to see children's...
WILLIAM JAY SMITH This is not your mom’s fairy tale.'

From a review of my novel, 'Course of Mirrors.
ASHEN VENEMA It's a fairy tale come true for him.
HINES WARD Would you want you as an example for the children of the world?
PETER STROPLE And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; And thereby ha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE man’s lesson is another man’s tale, but often, a man’s tale can be another’s lesson.
CECELIA AHERN My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes that they had taken...
BIBLE One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale mak...
REGINA DOMAN To tell a tale so great as to tear the soul inside out"
Sara Niles, Torn From the Inside Out
SARA NILES A tale in everything.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The Dreamer awakes
The shadow goes by
The tale I have told you,
That tale is a lie. TRADITIONAL FOLKTALE ENDING You and me Haymitch.Very cozy.Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights sitting around the fire retelli...
SUZANNE COLLINS I want to have the fairy-tale life with a wife and three or four kids. It will come.
CRIS JUDD The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
D.H. LAWRENCE This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes y...
TERRY PRATCHETT For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for...
CHARLES DICKENS A bitter reality of truth
can be wisely told
in a sweet tale of lullaby.
TOBA BETA Not every fairy tale story that begins with 'Once upon a time,' has a 'Happily ever after'....
KHALIA N. HADES

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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care
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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY In ashes of despaire, though burnt, shall make thee live.
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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (SYDNEY) O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
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PHILIP SIDNEY With a sword thou mayest kill thy father, and with a sword thou mayest defend thy prince and country...
PHILIP SIDNEY ...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.
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PHILIP SIDNEY It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
PHILIP SIDNEY Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
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PHILIP SIDNEY When the critics come around it's always too late.
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SIDNEY JOURARD Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love.
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SIDNEY MADWED To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.
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SIDNEY SHELDON Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw....
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SIDNEY MADWED If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your uni...
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SIDNEY MADWED One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
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SIDNEY POITIER Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
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SIDNEY MADWED Thoughts are funny little things,
They can make paupers or make kings.
SIDNEY MADWED The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness wil...
SIDNEY MADWED The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, ...
SIDNEY CROSBY I was better at both ends, defensively and offensively, ... It was more of a well-rounded game. I wa...
SIDNEY CROSBY I gave it my best shot, tried to have the best rookie year I could.
SIDNEY CROSBY It's a little bit overwhelming seeing this kind of reaction to my arrival, but I guess I'm prepared ...
SIDNEY CROSBY My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study p...
SIDNEY ALTMAN If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some go...
SIDNEY POITIER I was always cheering for them,
SIDNEY CROSBY I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.
SIDNEY POITIER It's going to be nice just to talk to him and talk about some hockey things. It's been busy, with th...
SIDNEY CROSBY Obviously, this is a new level, but the pressure has always been there,
SIDNEY CROSBY I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and h...
SIDNEY POITIER It's nice to finally get one. It's nice to be able to contribute.
SIDNEY CROSBY He's a very smart guy, but he's basically carrying out the agenda of the pharmaceutical industry. Hi...
SIDNEY WOLFE A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my c...
SIDNEY POITIER Fritz Lang was one of my dearest, dearest friends. I loved working with him.
SYLVIA SIDNEY Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication.
SYLVIA SIDNEY It's a little frustrating, but it's hockey -- you go through skids and this happens to be a long one...
SIDNEY CROSBY