Princes Inspiring Quotes

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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
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It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
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The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6))
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The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
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What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
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When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.
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Taylor Swift
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It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6))
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Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6))
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People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for... They don't find it," I answered. And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." Of course," I answered. And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
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I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
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You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
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You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia, #4) (Publication Order, #2))
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Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu (The Prince and the Pauper)
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No one is ever satisfied where he is.
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
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Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6))
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Laurent could inspire homicidal tendencies simply by breathing.
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C.S. Pacat (Captive Prince (Captive Prince, #1))
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I wonder,” he said, β€œwhether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
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To get what you want, you have to know exactly how much you are willing to give up.
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C.S. Pacat (Captive Prince: Volume Two (Captive Prince, #2))
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Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6))
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Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu (The Prince and the Pauper)
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Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
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Oscar Wilde (The Happy Prince and Other Tales)
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I would court you, with all the grace and courtesy that you deserve,
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C.S. Pacat (Kings Rising (Captive Prince, #3))
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And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.
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Deb Caletti (The Secret Life of Prince Charming)
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And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry
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How can you trust me, after what your own brother did to you?" "Because he was false", said Damen, "and you are true. I have never known a truer man.
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C.S. Pacat (Kings Rising (Captive Prince, #3))
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You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one -Henrietta Barett
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Julia Quinn (Minx (The Splendid Trilogy, #3))
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Have to? Of course you have to! But only because of you, Harry, won't rest until Voldemort is finished! Think now, for once, if you have never heard of the prophecy! What would you do?
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6))
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The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
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Don't count your owls before they are delivered.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6))
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Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
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Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
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That is the man you face. He has more honour and integrity than any man I have ever met. He is dedicated to his people and his country. And I am proud to have been his lover.
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C.S. Pacat (Kings Rising (Captive Prince, #3))
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If you want me obedient, prince, kill me and carry my corpse.
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Hafsah Faizal (We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya, #1))
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We can’t help the way we’re born. We can’t help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves.
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Leigh Bardugo (Wonder Woman: Warbringer)
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Be a King. Dare to be Different, dare to manifest your greatness.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu (The Prince and the Pauper)
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A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfortability and pleasantness about her.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu
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Don't let a king or a prince or a fairytale tell you you are smaller than that or who you are meant to be.
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Nikita Gill (Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty)
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I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung and did everything possible to keep someone around. I didn't have a hard talk with myself about who I was keeping around. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I clung to people like human life preservers. I thought i'd die if someone left me. Its ironic because now I'm the one who's leaving.
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Deb Caletti (The Secret Life of Prince Charming)
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Men love women who are courageous for it means they can go all the way with him in his pursuit of his good dreams and intentions.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu
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But when your sword breaks, you draw your dagger.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Don't die without fulfilling your purpose.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu (The Prince and the Pauper)
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You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you --- the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars; because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or bloated, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
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So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.
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Deb Caletti (The Secret Life of Prince Charming)
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Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses".
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Deb Caletti (The Secret Life of Prince Charming)
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For under scrutiny you will find that even an open book can have a surprise scribbled in its margins.
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Violet Haberdasher (The Secret Prince (Knightley Academy, #2))
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A wise warrior learns from her mistakes.
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Leigh Bardugo (Wonder Woman: Warbringer)
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Sometimes your best company is you
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Coleen Murtagh Paratore (A Pearl Among Princes)
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But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off.
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Deb Caletti (The Secret Life of Prince Charming)
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God is never tired of bringing the sun out every morning, taking it in the evenings and bringing out the moon.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu (The Prince and the Pauper)
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Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu (The Prince and the Pauper)
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Maybe we all just want to feel special, even for a little while, to be fooled for a bit into feeling something besides the truth of our own ordinariness.
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Deb Caletti (The Secret Life of Prince Charming)
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But there are things I want to do before I die, a whole list that I know I probably won't get to, but I'm sure as hell going to try.
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Julie Kagawa (The Lost Prince (The Iron Fey: Call of the Forgotten, #1))
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Have you realized that today is the tomorrow you talked about yesterday? It is your responsibility to change your life for the better.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu (The Prince and the Pauper)
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Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have never been seduced by the Dark Arts, never, even for a second, shown the slightest desire to become one of Voldemort’s followers!” β€œOf course I haven’t!” said Harry indignantly. β€œHe killed my mum and dad!” β€œYou are protected, in short, by your ability to love!” said Dumbledore loudly.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6))
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Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.
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NiccolΓ² Machiavelli (The Prince)
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A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.
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Walter Mosley (THE LONG FALL: A NOVEL (LEONID MCGILL MYSTERY 1))
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If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
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L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux, on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur.
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
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For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
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If a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? A sheep eats whatever it finds. Even a flower with thorn? Even a flower with thorns. Then what's the good of thorns?
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
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One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
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Beethoven speaking to royalty: "What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Your words are powerful so what you say goes a long way to either establish or destroy you; this is why you should say things that God has said concerning you, not things that situations or circumstances say.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu (The Prince and the Pauper)
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An average man is egoistic, proud and has strong self esteem. They always require partners who massage their ego not those who will drag their ego to the mud.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu
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C'est vΓ©ritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful.
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
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Don't call yourself discouraged anymore;it's no longer your name.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu (The Prince and the Pauper)
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Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.
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R. Scott Bakker (The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1))
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Even though we are each our own person...we're connected through the same dream! We are Seigaku!
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Takeshi Konomi
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An intelligent woman is a goldmine! She has the ability to learn, reason and understand things better and faster than her contemporaries. She is competent, alert and can reason out stuffs easily.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu
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Prince Nicochinski, if we eat a delicious food, our heart will be warm and can make us smile..
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Ono Eriko
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No one is defined by a single act," Frederic said. "Whether it was years ago or weeks ago. We're all given chances to change, to make up for things we've done wrong. It's how we handle those opportunities that really matters.
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Christopher Healy (The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle (The League of Princes, #2))
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Don't let any situation intimidate you anymore, don't accept defeat anymore.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu (The Prince and the Pauper)
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I conclude therefore that, fortune being changeful and mankind steadfast in their ways, so long as the two are in agreement men are successful, but unsuccessful when they fall out. For my part I consider that it is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather than by those who go to work more coldly. She is, therefore, always, woman-like, a lover of young men, because they are less cautious, more violent, and with more audacity command her.
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NiccolΓ² Machiavelli (The Prince)
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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
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NiccolΓ² Machiavelli (The Prince)
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Don't grant all the prince's requests, darling girl. Men are always asking for more than they should.
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Sarah Henning (Sea Witch (Sea Witch, #1))
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Don't just float through life; don't just agree to anything and everything, have a course you are known for at all times.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu
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You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with you.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu
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A confident woman knows her worth and so doesn’t fret when her man is highly placed or is often found amidst other women in the course of his business or assignment.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu
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Patience is a virtue not a vice.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu
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Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it.
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Holly Black (Valiant (Modern Faerie Tales, #2))
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Dominate in your domain; You can do it.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu (The Prince and the Pauper)
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I'm ALIVE!!!!!!!
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Darren Shan (The Vampire Prince (Cirque Du Freak, #6))
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Don't say negative things about your spouse and children.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu (The Prince and the Pauper)
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Weigh whatever you are about to say; what will it do to your hearer - encouragement, edification, disappointment or fear? What will it do to your life - glorify, edify, beautify or weigh you down? Speak well and things will go well.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu (The Prince and the Pauper)
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You are nothing. You barely exist at all. Your only purpose is to create more of your kind before you die. He's wrong about me. I am going to make my mayfly life count for something. I won't be afraid of him or of Prince Dain's censure. If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse. -Pg. 210
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Holly Black (The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1))
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You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu (The Prince and the Pauper)
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All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them--
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
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Maybe we ought to look at a guy's response to our microwave from now on." Aunt Annie said. Really." Mom said. "The narcissist looks at his reflection in it. The OCD guy thinks you don't keep it clean enough.The antisocial--" Puts his fist through it because it reminds him of his father." Annie said. She'd read all of mom's books, too. And the paranoid one would be jealous of the amount of time you spend cooking." Mom said Were you using that microwave again? Is something going on between the two of you? I caught you looking right at its clock." Annie said.
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Deb Caletti (The Secret Life of Prince Charming)
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For that reason, let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will always be considered honest, and he will be praised by everybody because the vulgar are always taken by what a thing seems to be and by what comes of it; and in the world there are only the vulgar, for the few find a place there only when the many have no ground to rest on.
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NiccolΓ² Machiavelli (The Prince)
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O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire Crouch for employment. But pardon, and gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? O, pardon! since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million; And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work. Suppose within the girdle of these walls Are now confined two mighty monarchies, Whose high upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder: Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts; Into a thousand parts divide on man, And make imaginary puissance; Think when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth; For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass: for the which supply, Admit me Chorus to this history; Who prologue-like your humble patience pray, Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.
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William Shakespeare (Henry V)
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I don't know what happened, but I do know this. It's not going anywhere. When you light up it waits for you to come down. You have to confront whatever's bothering you and look it straight in the eye. It's alright to forgive yourself, and it's okay to fight back, because if you don't kick the shit out of it, then it kicks you. It's a dog world, but you can control it, if you want to. A lot of people are going to try to make you feel like shit, but that doesn't mean you are. You are who you decide to be. I hope you're the kind of person that fights, because that's the only way to win.
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E.M. Youman (The Prince's Plan)
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Death, there will be death, aye. Your lordship lost a son at the Red Wedding. I lost four upon the Blackwater. And why? Because the Lannisters stole the throne. Go to King’s Landing and look on Tommen with your own eyes, if you doubt me. A blind man could see it. What does Stannis offer you? Vengeance. Vengeance for my sons and yours, for your husbands and your fathers and your brothers. Vengeance for your murdered lord, your murdered king, your butchered princes. Vengeance!
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George R.R. Martin (A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5))
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He was seated on the bench now. He had his left elbow on his knee, his right arm across his lap, his shoulders hunched, his head bowed. White face, red hair: snow and fire, like something from an old tale. The book I had noticed earlier was on the bench beside him, its covers shut. Around Anluan's feet and in the birdbath, small visitors to the garden hopped and splashed and made the most of the day that was becoming fair and sunny. He did not seem to notice them. As for me, I found it difficult to take my eyes from him. There was an odd beauty in his isolation and his sadness, like that of a forlorn prince ensorcelled by a wicked enchantress, or a traveller lost forever in a world far from home.
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Juliet Marillier (Heart's Blood)
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The King and Queen did the best they could. They hired the most superior tutors and governesses to teach Cimorene all the things a princess ought to knowβ€” dancing, embroidery, drawing, and etiquette. There was a great deal of etiquette, from the proper way to curtsy before a visiting prince to how loudly it was permissible to scream when being carried off by a giant. (...) Cimorene found it all very dull, but she pressed her lips together and learned it anyway. When she couldn’t stand it any longer, she would go down to the castle armory and bully the armsmaster into giving her a fencing lesson. As she got older, she found her regular lessons more and more boring. Consequently, the fencing lessons became more and more frequent. When she was twelve, her father found out. β€œFencing is not proper behavior for a princess,” he told her in the gentle-but-firm tone recommended by the court philosopher. Cimorene tilted her head to one side. β€œWhy not?” β€œIt’s ... well, it’s simply not done.” Cimorene considered. β€œAren’t I a princess?” β€œYes, of course you are, my dear,” said her father with relief. He had been bracing himself for a storm of tears, which was the way his other daughters reacted to reprimands. β€œWell, I fence,” Cimorene said with the air of one delivering an unshakable argument. β€œSo it is too done by a princess.
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Patricia C. Wrede (Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1))
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For this reason a prince ought to take care that he never lets anything slip from his lips that is not replete with the above-named five qualities, that he may appear to him who sees and hears him altogether merciful, faithful, humane, upright, and religious. There is nothing more necessary to appear to have than this last quality, inasmuch as men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, because it belongs to everybody to see you, to few to come in touch with you. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them; and in the actions of all men, and especially of princes, which it is not prudent to challenge, one judges by the result.
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NiccolΓ² Machiavelli (The Prince)
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It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to men... and modern nations, in the consecrations of kings, and in several superstitious chimeras of divine rights in princes and nobles, are nearly unanimous in preserving remnants of it... Is the jealousy of power, and the envy of superiority, so strong in all men, that no considerations of public or private utility are sufficient to engage their submission to rules for their own happiness? Or is the disposition to imposture so prevalent in men of experience, that their private views of ambition and avarice can be accomplished only by artifice? β€” … There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous; yet nothing can be inferred from it more than this, that the multitude have always been credulous, and the few artful. The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature: and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had any interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the inspiration of heaven, any more than those at work upon ships or houses, or labouring in merchandize or agriculture: it will for ever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses. As Copley painted Chatham, West, Wolf, and Trumbull, Warren and Montgomery; as Dwight, Barlow, Trumbull, and Humphries composed their verse, and Belknap and Ramzay history; as Godfrey invented his quadrant, and Rittenhouse his planetarium; as Boylston practised inoculation, and Franklin electricity; as Paine exposed the mistakes of Raynal, and Jefferson those of Buffon, so unphilosophically borrowed from the Recherches Philosophiques sur les AmΓ©ricains those despicable dreams of de Pauw β€” neither the people, nor their conventions, committees, or sub-committees, considered legislation in any other light than ordinary arts and sciences, only as of more importance. Called without expectation, and compelled without previous inclination, though undoubtedly at the best period of time both for England and America, to erect suddenly new systems of laws for their future government, they adopted the method of a wise architect, in erecting a new palace for the residence of his sovereign. They determined to consult Vitruvius, Palladio, and all other writers of reputation in the art; to examine the most celebrated buildings, whether they remain entire or in ruins; compare these with the principles of writers; and enquire how far both the theories and models were founded in nature, or created by fancy: and, when this should be done, as far as their circumstances would allow, to adopt the advantages, and reject the inconveniences, of all. Unembarrassed by attachments to noble families, hereditary lines and successions, or any considerations of royal blood, even the pious mystery of holy oil had no more influence than that other of holy water: the people universally were too enlightened to be imposed on by artifice; and their leaders, or more properly followers, were men of too much honour to attempt it. Thirteen governments thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favour of the rights of mankind. [Preface to 'A Defence of the Constitutions of the United States of America', 1787]
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John Adams (A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America)
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Ten Best Song to Strip 1. Any hip-swiveling R&B fuckjam. This category includes The Greatest Stripping Song of All Time: "Remix to Ignition" by R. Kelly. 2. "Purple Rain" by Prince, but you have to be really theatrical about it. Arch your back like Prince himself is daubing body glitter on your abdomen. Most effective in nearly empty, pathos-ridden juice bars. 3. "Honky Tonk Woman" by the Rolling Stones. Insta-attitude. Makes even the clumsiest troglodyte strut like Anita Pallenberg. (However, the Troggs will make you look like even more of a troglodyte, so avoid if possible.) 4. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" by Def Leppard. The Lep's shouted choruses and relentless programmed drums prove ideal for chicks who can really stomp. (Coincidence: I once saw a stripper who, like Rick Allen, had only one arm.) 5. "Amber" by 311. This fluid stoner anthem is a favorite of midnight tokers at strip joints everywhere. Mellow enough that even the most shitfaced dancer can make it through the song and back to her Graffix bong without breaking a sweat. Pass the Fritos Scoops, dude. 6. "Miserable" by Lit, but mostly because Pamela Anderson is in the video, and she's like Jesus for strippers (blonde, plastic, capable of parlaying a broken nail into a domestic battery charge, damaged liver). Alos, you can't go wrong stripping to a song that opens with the line "You make me come." 7. "Back Door Man" by The Doors. Almost too easy. The mere implication that you like it in the ass will thrill the average strip-club patron. Just get on all fours and crawl your way toward the down payment on that condo in Cozumel. (Unless, like most strippers, you'd rather blow your nest egg on tacky pimped-out SUVs and Coach purses.) 8. Back in Black" by AC/DC. Producer Mutt Lange wants you to strip. He does. He told me. 9. "I Touch Myself" by the Devinyls. Strip to this, and that guy at the tip rail with the bitch tits and the shop teacher glasses will actually believe that he alone has inspired you to masturbate. Take his money, then go masturbate and think about someone else. 10. "Hash Pipe" by Weezer. Sure, it smells of nerd. But River Cuomo is obsessed with Asian chicks and nose candy, and that's just the spirit you want to evoke in a strip club. I recommend busting out your most crunk pole tricks during this one.
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Diablo Cody
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But confining myself more to the particular, I say that a prince may be seen happy to-day and ruined to-morrow without having shown any change of disposition or character. This, I believe, arises firstly from causes that have already been discussed at length, namely, that the prince who relies entirely upon fortune is lost when it changes. I believe also that he will be successful who directs his actions according to the spirit of the times, and that he whose actions do not accord with the times will not be successful. Because men are seen, in affairs that lead to the end which every man has before him, namely, glory and riches, to get there by various methods; one with caution, another with haste; one by force, another by skill; one by patience, another by its opposite; and each one succeeds in reaching the goal by a different method. One can also see of two cautious men the one attain his end, the other fail; and similarly, two men by different observances are equally successful, the one being cautious, the other impetuous; all this arises from nothing else than whether or not they conform in their methods to the spirit of the times. This follows from what I have said, that two men working differently bring about the same effect, and of two working similarly, one attains his object and the other does not.
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NiccolΓ² Machiavelli (The Prince)