Castles Quotes - Page 10

• White Castle has a unique position in the Midwest. It is a cult brand that has developed a strong, loyal following.

  Ron Paul

  Strong, Unique, White

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• The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their other side, one would have to hew out a passage through the celestial marble.

  Hope Mirrlees

  Sky, Towers, Sides

  Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.62, F+W Media, Inc.

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• In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'.

  Warren Buffett

  Moats, Looks, Economic

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.63, John Wiley & Sons

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• This provision (the 4th Amendment) speaks for itself. Its plain object is to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of the common law, that a man's house shall be his own castle, privileged against all civil and military intrusion.

  Joseph Story

  Military, Men, Law

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• That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence.

  Pamela Moore

  Hell, Sand, Impermanence

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• Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.

  Henry Rollins

  Running, Men, Records

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• The first thing that Shaytan (Satan) will try to do is get you to stop praying. You know why? Because he has to kill the guard if he wants to penetrate the castle. Once the guard is gone, then Shaytan(satan) can open the floodgates for evil. And he has a lot of patience. He has done this to many people before so he’s experienced as well.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  People, Evil, Trying

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• She thought she'd put up with however many years of stonewalling for a good reason, and she'd just figured out that as far as Castle Hubby went, she hadn't even crossed the moat yet.

  Jim Shepard

  Breakup, Years, Moats

  W. Kinsella, Jim Shepard, Steven Millhauser, Max Apple (2016). “Invaders: 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature”, p.336, Tachyon Publications

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• I headed for this white mountain, but was caught in the wind and the mist . . . I followed the cliff from north to south, but the wind, against which I was fighting, got even stronger. A break in the coast appeared to my right, just before Dover Castle. I was madly happy. I headed for it. I rushed for it. I was above ground!

  Louis Bleriot

  Airplane, Fighting, Wind

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• If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.

  Larry Constantine

  Play, Air, Wish

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• We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security... The America being designed right now won't resemble the America we've been defending... The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Brother, Wall, America

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• You soon learn there’s no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes.

  Mark Lawrence

  Kitchen, Ugly, Taste

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.89, Penguin

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• I think about the kinds of gardens that Queen Elizabeth put up. She made gardens in the shape of an "E," for Elizabeth, just one more way in which she used symbolism to solidify her reign: appearing as the Virgin Queen, for example, or wearing a dress embroidered with eyes and ears to indicate that she knew all that was going on in her castle; she had spies.

  Martha Ronk

  Queens, Eye, Garden

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• When I was growing up, my idea of Led Zeppelin was all epic lasers, castles, and ten-minute drum solos - that sort of thing.

  Justin Adams

  Growing Up, Epic, Ideas

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It sounds almost unreal, but I was born and raised on old castlegrounds - Kenmure Castle.

  Sam Heughan

  Sound, Born, Raised

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Now, what sort of person would write a scene where a young man stumbles upon a castle full only of beautiful young women? Answer: ME!

  Michael Palin

  Beautiful, Writing, Men

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• It's gonna be awesome! A suspected pedophile dunks my kids head in a bucket so when she dies she can live in an invisible castle. Set the alarm!

  Dana Gould

  Kids, Buckets, Alarms

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• I'd have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled with books, and I'd write out of a magic inkstand, so that my works should be as famous as Laurie's music. I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle,-something heroic, or wonderful,-that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all, some day. I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous; that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Dream, Book, Mean

  Louisa May Alcott (1876). “Little Women: Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy”, p.190

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• One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in trouble it wonders what to do. Declare war! Then nothing else matters. It's like chess; when in doubt, castle.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, School, Government

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• We want to make sure children aren't left without any books. We want to make sure our children have the books, that they have a place in the castle. We want to make sure that their mothers have affordable day care. We want to make sure we give the older people the care that they need.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Mother, Children, Book

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• I`ve never seen an orange with the label Castle on it made of glass.

  George Gregan

  Glasses, Orange, Labels

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• The charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air built on misrepresentation, supported by unfounded fear, held aloft by hysteria.

  John Ashcroft

  Air, Hysteria, Misrepresentation

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• That Wall Street has gone down because of this is justice ... They built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience.

  Steve Eisman

  Wall, Rip, Years

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• Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

  Rose Kennedy

  Father, Home, Political

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• My home is my castle, and I spend a lot of time nurturing it, redecorating - moving this and adjusting that, adding flowers and candles.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Flower, Moving, Home

  Source: www.justjared.com

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