"If you look at most of the Royal Houses in Europe, the inbreeding was pretty outstanding."

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Source : "Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: Jaime isn’t a psychopath. He’s a realist". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. May 13, 2011.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

#Europe Quotes #House Quotes #Inbreeding Quotes

“Public office is a public trust.”
“If you see someone in the kitchen that has good hands and a quick brain, then you need that person to be in the front of everything.”

Source : "René Redzepi: the outsider" by Sabine Durrant, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2010.
“It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.”
“Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.”

Source : Smedley D. Butler (2003). “War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier”, Feral House
“It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of contending elements of vice and virtue, and ever mainly influenced by the predominant principle of self-interest. It may, indeed, be confidently asserted, that there never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately ruled by a single will, and, therefore, (however bold may seem the paradox,) virtually and substantially a monarchy.”

Source : " Universal History: From the Creation of the World to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century, Vol. I" by Alexander Fraser Tytler, Petridge and Company, (p. 216), 1854.
“We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.”
“I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.”

Source : Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “Sermons on the Psalms”
“All he said was, "Here, have your dinfast. Then we can start packing." "Dinfast," Nick repeated. "Dinner and breakfast!" Alan said triumphantly. "Like brunch." Nick subjected him to a long, judgemental stare. "There's something very wrong with you," he said at last. "I thought you should know.”

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