"When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered."

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Arthur Bryant

#Kings Quotes #Royal Quotes #Hats Quotes

“If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.”
“It became a bit of a challenge to make an album that is essentially quite alternative sounding, and has a lot of sounds that could be guitar - for instance on "Overjoyed," there's what sounds like guitar but is actually a lot of keys.”
“Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot.”

Source : Hans Fallada (2009). “Every Man Dies Alone”, p.5, Melville House
“Everything youâ€™ve told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, youâ€™ve generated personal failure, because you canâ€™t do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source canâ€™t be pin-pointed.”
“It's a GIRL. It's a little girl, with scrunched-up petal lips and a tuft of dark hair and hands in tiny fits, up by her ears. All that time, that's who was in there. And it's weird, but the minute I saw her I just thought: IT'S YOU. Of course it is.”
“I love filming in Britain.”
“True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.”

Source : "Financial Times Handbook of Management". P. 229. Book by Stuart Crainer and ‎Des Dearlove, 2004.
“Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.”

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