"For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile."

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Theodora

#Kings Quotes #Words Of Wisdom Quotes #Exile Quotes

“But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do”
“Vietnam was worse than immoral - it was a mistake.”

Source : "Letter from America, 1946-2004". Book by Alistair Cooke, 2004.
“Dive bars are much more my thing. They're no-nonsense.”

Source : "Meet Clint Eastwood's Gorgeous Son Scott" by Lesley Messer, abcnews.go.com. September 18, 2013.
“Do not let anyone stop you from succeding”
“The single biggest mistake, I think, is giving up too soon.”
“I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after.”

Source : "An Interview with Alan Bishop". believermag.com. July 1st, 2008.
“A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom.”
“Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.”

Source : Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Eugène Labiche, Georges Courteline (pseud.) (1975). “Three popular French comedies”, Frederick Ungar

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