Kingdoms Quotes - Page 18

• After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.

  Judith McNaught

  Dream, Given

  Judith McNaught (2016). “A Kingdom of Dreams”, p.438, Simon and Schuster

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• When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all around them and in between the hills there was a wide expanse of black bog. Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!

  Susanna Clarke

  Light, Scotland, Rose

  Susanna Clarke, Portia Rosenberg (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.604, A&C Black

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• Let the meek have the kingdom of heaven. The strong shall rule on earth.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Strong, Heaven, Earth

  Jennifer Armintrout (2012). “Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes”, p.252, Harlequin

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• They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.

  Philippa Gregory

  Beautiful, Mother, Men

  Philippa Gregory (2006). “The Constant Princess”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• i really like kingdom hearts its like the best book ever

  Shiro Amano

  Book, Heart, Kingdom Hearts

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• The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Jesus, Live Life

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Men, Suffering

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 63

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• Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end. The exclusivism of there being only one way in which we can be saved, the idea that there is a single religious group that is in sole possession of the truth—that is the world as we know it that must pass away. What is the kingdom? It lies in our realization of the ubiquity of the divine presence in our neighbors, in our enemies, in all of us.

  Joseph Campbell

  Religious, Lying, Ignorance

  "Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor".

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• Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of "us" and "them" creates a false picture and is responsible for much suffering. It is part of the in-group/out-group mentality that leads to human oppression of the weak by the strong as in ethic, religious, political, and social conflicts.

  Marc Bekoff

  Religious, Strong, Animal

  Marc Bekoff (2013). “Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed: The Fascinating Science of Animal Intelligence, Emotions, Friendship, and Conservation”, p.310, New World Library

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• My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. One such melting occurs in summer rain, at midnight, during the vine-green breathing time right before sleep. You have to ask the right question, throw the right rope bridge, to get there-and then bolt across the chasm between you, before your bridge collapses.

  Karen Russell

  Summer, Rain, Sleep

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• I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figured goblets for a dish of wood, My scepter for a palmer's walking staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints and my large kingdom for a little grave.

  William Shakespeare

  Gay, Jewels, Giving

  'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 3, l. 143

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• I want to make my kingdom beautiful, to fill it with fat men and pretty maids and laughing children. I want my people to smile when they see me ride by, the way Viserys said they smiled for my father. (Daenerys)

  George R. R. Martin

  Beautiful, Children, Father

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• Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer: Roman soldiers knew how to kill people, and no disciple would have been fooled by a half-drugged, beat-up Jesus into thinking he'd defeated death and inaugurated the kingdom.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Thinking, Roman Soldiers

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• He held up a finger and went to the hallway, where he tripped over Blotchy, and then over the two monster cats madly pursuing Blotchy. Swearing, he leaned over the landing and called to the guard that unless the kingdom fell to war or his daughter was dying, he better not be interrupted until further notice.

  Kristin Cashore

  Daughter, War, Cat

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.240, Penguin

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• Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Gay, Laughing, Joy

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.742, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Misty Sendaria," Silk said ironically. "Sometimes I'm amazed that the entire kingdom doesn't rust shut.

  David Eddings

  Rust, Sometimes, Said

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• Be careful dear that you don’t end up as the queen of a lonely kingdom

  Lisa Kleypas

  Lonely, Queens, Ends

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.146, Macmillan

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• Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life Is, Ends, Kingdom Of God

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.

  Alice Hoffman

  Stupid, Color, Red

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• Woman?” She chuckled. “Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man.” Dany met his stare. “I am Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons, khaleesi to Drogo’s riders, and queen of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Queens, Men

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1928, Bantam

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• Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation. When something's let go of, it circles; and though we are rarely the center of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous curve.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Letting Go, Curves, Circles

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “For Hans Carossa”

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• ...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

  Donald Miller

  Men, Proud, Delusion

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.55, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• They rode out together from the shadows of the trees, leaving the Bala Hissar and the glowing torch of the burning Residency behind them, and spurred away across the flat lands towards the mountains... And it may even be that they found their Kingdom.

  M.M. Kaye

  Glowing, Land, Tree

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• Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church.

  N. T. Wright

  Church, Spirit, Without God

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• The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

  E. M. Forster

  Culture, World, Accepting

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.25, 谷月社

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