"If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy, as God and the devil. ... No bishop, no King! I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse."

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Source : Speaking of the Puritans at Hampton Court Conference, January 16, 1604.

King James I

#Kings Quotes #Land Quotes #Devil Quotes

“Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket.”
“We say that the faces of coming generations are looking up from the earth. So when you put your feet down, you put them down very carefully - because there are generations coming one after the other. If you think in these terms, then you'll walk a lot more carefully, be more respectful of this earth.”
“There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of lifeâ€™s mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.”
“Cats sleep in a state of total abandon, and I find that state very interesting in people as well.”
“I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.”
“Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. ...I beg of you, pretend you are a dog like me and LISTEN to other people rather than steal their stories.”
“Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking at the Forum. But it's changing. It truly is. I'm optimistic but skeptical.”

Source : "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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