Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Herman

He had a reign of terror for three decades.

Blaise Pascal

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

John Milton

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Arabian Proverb

When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

Henry IV

Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead.

Alexander Pope

Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

Andrew Marvell

Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns

Edward McKendree Bounds

The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.

Tara Slone

We've been together for two and a half years, we worked really hard from Day One -- I mean, really hard -- so for us, it doesn't feel like it happened quickly, ... The whole record industry is so fickle and strange that I feel like I'm going with the flow. I don't know what to expect, but I hope people like it.

Don Cassidy

We said it would be a stock-picker's year, and it was. Investors were particularly fickle and short-term driven.

Jesse Stone

Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And as soon as you relax for five minutes, they're gone, you know, and they're following somebody else.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.

Chloe Sevigny

The film industry is so fickle about financing, and it's so difficult to get movies made.

Pam Adams

This is a fickle, fickle game. We've just got to come back (today). We're playing hard, we just didn't get the wins.

Howard Davidowitz

The rule of the game is go public for the money when you have the numbers to impress potential investors. Retail, and especially apparel, is so fickle that nothing stays the same forever.

Cole Porter

A slap and a tickle Is all that the fickle Male Ever has in his head

Erin Morgenstern

You told me love was fickle and fleeting.

Massoud Barzani

It is an historic day that crowns the sacrifice of martyrs.

Francois Fenelon

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all

Francois FTNelon

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.

Charles Spurgeon

You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross.

Dave Parker

When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown

William Butler Yeats

Where got I that truth? Out of a medium's mouth, Out of nothing it came, Out of the forest loam, Out of dark night where lay The crowns of Nineveh

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

Monica Johnson

Fixate your love on Him, be obedient to God's word, and don't seek the glory of this world. In doing these things, God will exalt you in this earth and you won't have to sacrifice your soul for earthly crowns that will fade.

Henry IV

I would willingly give fifty thousand crowns to be able to say that I took Paris without costing the life of one single man.