Majesty Quotes - Page 7

• I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Air, Compression, Discs

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

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• But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cities, Giving, Water

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.76, 谷月社

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• When the Negro learns what manner of man he is spiritually, he will wake up all over. He will stop playing white even on the stage. He will rise in the majesty of his own soul.

  Nannie Helen Burroughs

  Men, White, Soul

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• a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

  Barbara Mertz

  Joy, Church, Wells

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• If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.110, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Great Britain has lost an Empire and not yet found a role. The attempt to playa separate power rolethat is, a role apart from Europe, based on a special relationship with the United States, on being the head of the Commonwealthis about to be played out. Her Majesty's Government is now attempting, wisely in my opinion, to re-enter Europe.

  Dean Acheson

  Government, Europe, Special

  1962 Speech at West Point military academy, 5 Dec. According to the New York Times, 23 Nov1969, Prime Minister Harold Wilson later countered,'Mr Acheson is a distinguished figure who has lost a State Department and not yet found himself a role'.

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• If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.

  Algernon Sidney

  Arses, May, Please

  "Joe Miller's jests: or, The wits vade-mecum". Book compiled by J. Mottley, p. 6, 1739.

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• God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.

  Philip Sidney

  Suicide, Captains, Forts

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.151

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• But the closer we study their lives, and the better we know their deeds, the more profound is our admiration and the greater our reverence for the Pilgrim fathers. Between the drafting of their immortal charter of liberty in the cabin of the Mayflower and the fruition of their principles in the power and majesty of the republic of the United States of to-day is but a span in the records of the word, and yet it is the most important and beneficent chapter in history. To be able to claim descent from them, either by birth or adoption, is to glory in kinship with God's nobility.

  Chauncey Depew

  Father, Profound, Adoption

  Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1910). “Club and society addresses”

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• Action will come. Fill yourselves with the ideal; whatever you do, think well on it. All your actions will be magnified, transformed, deified, by the very power of the thought. If matter is powerful, thought is omnipotent. Bring this thought to bear upon your life, fill yourselves with the thought of your almightiness, your majesty, and your glory.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Powerful, Thinking, Matter

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.11, editionNEXT.com

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• Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Strength, Clamor, Honorable

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• How much on outward show does all depend,
  If virtues from within no lustre lend!
  Strip off th'externals M and Y, the rest
  Proves Majesty itself is but a Jest.

  Horace Walpole

  Doe, Royalty, Virtue

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• It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.

  Walter Bagehot

  Phrases, England, Said

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Cabinet'

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• There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues madethem great and noble. They possessed a natural majesty that was not put on and taken off at pleasure, as was that of certain eastern monarchs when they put on or took off their garments of Tyrian dye. It is hoped that this is not wholly lost from the world, although the sense of earthly vanity inculcated by Christianity may have swallowed it up in humility.

  Herman Melville

  Taken, Humility, Greatness

  Herman Melville (2001). “Tales, Poems, and Other Writings”

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• The history of his present majesty, is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpationsall of which have in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world, for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood.

  Thomas Jefferson

  World, Facts, King George Iii

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.203, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Let it be signified to me through any channelthat the possession of the Floridas would be desirable to the United States, andin sixty days it will be accomplished.
  ...penned in the language of truth, and divested of those expressions of servility which would persuade his majesty that we are asking favors and not rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Florida, Rights, Expression

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• Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Ice, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.86, Harvard University Press

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• His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews.

  Arthur Balfour

  Home, Government, Favour

  1917 The Balfour Declaration, made in a letter to Lord Rothschild, 2 Nov.

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• The feel of a canoe gunnel at the thigh, the splash of flying spray in the face, the rhythm of the snowshoe trail, the beckoning of far-off hills and valleys, the majesty of the tempest, the calm and silent presence of the trees that seem to muse and ponder in their silence; the trust and confidence of small living creatures, the company of simple men; these have been my inspiration and my guide. Without them I am nothing.

  Grey Owl

  Inspiration, Men, Simple

  Grey Owl (2010). “Pilgrims of the Wild”, p.28, Dundurn

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• I turned to leave and paused before the gap in the ruined wall. "One last thing, Your Majesty. I'd like a name I can put into my report, something shorter than typing out 'The Leader of the Southern Shapechanger Faction.' What should I call you?" "Lord." I rolled my eyes. He shrugged. "It's short.

  Ilona Andrews

  Wall, Eye, Names

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.39, Penguin

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• Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true. Your Majesty, to the man you wish to become.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Believe, Men, People

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1039, Macmillan

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• I predict a long reign ahead of you. Years of being referred to as Your Majesty, Your Grace, Your Excellence, My Liege, My Queen, My Lovely.” “I don’t think that last one is a formal title,” I said. “It should be.

  Amanda Hocking

  Queens, Thinking, Years

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.548, Pan Macmillan

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• Now what?” Urgit warily asked his bride-to-be. “Am I disturbing your Majesty?” Prala asked. “…You always disturb me, my beloved,” he answered her question, spreading his arms extravagantly.

  David Eddings

  Arms, Beloved, Brides

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• Behold the Drojim Palace," King Urgit said extravagantly to Sadi, "the hereditary home of the House of Urga." "A most unusual structure, You Majesty," Sadi murmured. "That's a diplomatic way to put it." Urgit looked critically at his palace. "It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.

  David Eddings

  Kings, Home, House

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• Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare a bunch of goondas shrink the soaring majesty of the Vedas and the Upanishads to the petty bigotry of their brand of identity politics?

  Shashi Tharoor

  Identity Politics, Vedas, Fundamentals

  Shashi Tharoor (2007). “The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-century Power”, p.75, Penguin Books India

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