Kingdoms Quotes - Page 15

• Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.

  Henning Mankell

  Historical, Would Be, Way

  "A life in writing: Henning Mankell" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.

  Brennan Manning

  Loneliness, Journey, Evil

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• We are seeing, we have seen in the last figures a significant drop in the number of net migrants coming into the United Kingdom. So we are cutting out abuse, we've restricted the number of economic - non-EU economic migrants. We're cutting out abuse across the student visa system, particularly, and we're having an impact.

  Theresa May

  Cutting, Impact, Numbers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What is absolutely clear is that we have, with the U.S., an extradition treaty which is important, I believe it is an important treaty, for both sides, the United States and the United Kingdom. It is a treaty that I believe is balanced and we work on that basis.

  Theresa May

  Believe, Important, United States

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mind, Atheism, Prejudice

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• Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.

  Henri Nouwen

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

  Marcel Proust

  Fitness, Cancer, Knowledge

  Marcel Proust (1941). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove. The Guermantes way”

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• I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.

  Ja Rule

  Children, Years, Church

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Government, Iraq, People

  Norman Schwarzkopf (2010). “It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf”, p.579, Bantam

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• Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Commitment, Sea, Cities

  "An independent Scotland could not pay welfare bill, says Iain Duncan Smith". www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2012.

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• If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me.' and 'Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Made, Stay With Me

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• God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.

  Charles Stanley

  Simple, Destiny, Joy

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• When you become an instrument in God's hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person's eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow.

  Charles Stanley

  Son, Blow, Destiny

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• My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Towers, Saudi Arabia, Threat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Animal, Keys, Survival

  "How Smart Are Animals?". "NOVA scienceNOW", www.pbs.org. February 9, 2011.

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• It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed.

  Tom Wolfe

  Animal, Important, Battle

  "Tom Wolfe on How Speech Made Us Human". Interview with Steve Heilig, www.sfgate.com. March 16, 2008.

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• The Holy Ghost is a comforter and a guide. But it is also a cleansing agent. That is why service in the kingdom is so crucial to enduring. When we are called to serve, we can pray for the Holy Ghost to be our companion with assurance it will come.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Agents, Cleansing, Ghost

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• A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Horse, Stars, Men

  Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too.

  Elizabeth I

  Leadership, Sports, Kings

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• He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filthy habitation, the sole animal in whom was fully developed the base instinct called patriotism, the sole animal that robs, persecutes, oppresses and kills members of his own tribe, the sole animal that steals and enslaves the members of any tribe.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Animal, Men

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• It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Atheist, Home, Broken

  FaceBook post by Thomas Pynchon from Nov 06, 2014

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• The kingdom of god... or nothing!!!

  Lorenzo Snow

  Religion, Kingdom Of God

  Lorenzo Snow (1984). “The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the world.

  J. C. Ryle

  Soul, World, Saved

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.69, Editora Dracaena

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• A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift. ....The Lord has declared that those who serve him and keep his commandments are called his servants. After they have been tested and tried and are found faithful and true in all things, they are called no longer servants, but friends. His friends are the ones he will take into his kingdom and with whom he will associate in an eternal inheritance.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Lds, Faithful, Inheritance

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• You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within...flesh and blood's dream...so you fly now, pay later, all of us...I mean actually it's PAY NOW, FLY LATER

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Mean, Blood

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