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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| aa44cf8 | war was a dangerous business, and those who escaped death at the hands of the enemy often perished as a result of the dysentery and disease that could decimate armies. | Alison Weir | ||
| c096b64 | sycophancy | Alison Weir | ||
| 81253ca | Masques | Alison Weir | ||
| d179eef | Agnus Dei; | Alison Weir | ||
| 4e22a17 | 7. CCR; Robert of Reading; Murimuth; Dugdale, Monasticon; Annales | Alison Weir | ||
| da9aa4e | Giladi states that "Jews from" | Alison Weir | ||
| 1e3dfdd | allayed, | Alison Weir | ||
| f8203c8 | An organization which has the aims we have must be anonymous, must work silently,[52] and through education and infection rather than through force and noise. | Alison Weir | ||
| d519279 | assiduous | Alison Weir | ||
| 0e44b72 | anxiety. | Alison Weir | ||
| 08a4233 | Only during courtship might a woman briefly gain the upper hand, as both Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour did, but woe betide her if she did not quickly learn to conform once the wedding-ring was on her finger. The | Alison Weir | ||
| d16ed05 | Men, however, were encouraged to sow their wild oats, but a woman who did so became a social outcast and ruined her chances of making a good marriage. | Alison Weir | ||
| a293b4e | Who does not tremble when he considers how to deal with his wife?' asked Henry VIII in his treatise A Defence of the Seven Sacraments; 'for not only is he bound to love her, but so to live with her that he may return her to God pure and without stain, when God who gave shall demand His own again.' Marriage | Alison Weir | ||
| d0e11d7 | a royal bride could come to enjoy considerable power and influence, as did both Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. Yet such status and power emanated solely from her husband. She enjoyed no freedoms but those he permitted her. Without him, she was nothing. Queens | Alison Weir | ||
| eb188de | One French ambassador, having witnessed the royal temper, confided, 'When I see her enraged against any person whatever, I wish myself in Calcutta, fearing her anger like death | Alison Weir | ||
| 30fcf32 | recusancy, | Alison Weir | ||
| 3c92130 | Former Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson also opposed Zionism. Acheson's biographer writes that Acheson "worried that the West would pay a high price for Israel." Another author, John Mulhall, records Acheson's warning of the danger for U.S. interests: "...to transform [Palestine] into a Jewish State capable of receiving a million or more immigrants would vastly exacerbate the political problem and imperil not only American but all Weste.. | Alison Weir | ||
| 2638568 | attainder, | Alison Weir | ||
| d647896 | Clytemnestra, | Alison Weir | ||
| 4690fd9 | between Scylla and Charybdis, | Alison Weir | ||
| d3aee82 | Henry VIII owned more than eight hundred carpets, | Alison Weir | ||
| 9dce39f | but he frequently drank too much, and when he was inebriated would indiscriminately "let out his secret thoughts and quarrel with bystanders for feeble causes."47" | Alison Weir | ||
| 6ac8591 | Islamic lands did not emigrate willingly to Israel." In order "to force them to leave," Giladi writes, "Jews killed Jews." He goes on to say that in an effort "to buy time to confiscate ever more Arab lands, Jews on numerous occasions rejected genuine peace initiatives from their Arab neighbors."[136]" | Alison Weir | ||
| 9052ff0 | crack of | Alison Weir | ||
| 8136c66 | Tudor historians were fond of reminding their readers of the horrors of the Wars of the Roses, recounting how the realm had been plunged into the vicious civil war over a disputed crown that lasted more than thirty years. | Alison Weir | ||
| c7a2122 | Virgil had no difficulty in believing that God has visited the sins of Henry IV upon his descendant, Henry VI, yet he did not explain how this was to be reconciled with the triumphant career of Henry V. | Alison Weir | ||
| 168aa86 | Tudor historians were adept at rewriting history. | Alison Weir | ||
| e32e550 | Do not make it my complaint, Simon." Her voice was firm but her look contained love and a little amusement as well as irritation." | Tad Williams | ||
| 47b98bb | Books," Morgenes said grandly, leaning back on his precarious stool, "--books are magic. That is the simple answer. And books are traps as well." "Magic? Traps?" "Books are a form of magic--" the doctor lifted the volume he had just laid on the stack, "--because they span time and distance more surely than any spell or charm. What did so-and-so think about such-and-such two hundred years agone? Can you fly back through the ages and ask him?.. | Tad Williams | ||
| c98bcd0 | Just sitting in her private room was fascinating. Her magazines lay on the table, from to as well as her newspapers--the at the top of the pile, obviously, if distressingly. After I had spent ten minutes on my own, she swept in, gushing: "I'm so sorry to have kept you, Piers. I hope Paul has been looking after you all right." And then came what was surely one of the most needless requests of all time: "Would you mind awfully if Willia.. | Larry King | ||
| 0656cdb | I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones. | Tad Williams | ||
| 138e0b0 | An idle mind is the Devil's seedbed. | Tad Williams | ||
| 8bbf9fa | Men do not manage well with too much peace. Someone will find a quarrel. | Tad Williams | ||
| 1e61dd1 | Part of manhood, I am thinking, is to ponder one's words before opening one's mouth. | Tad Williams | ||
| 7e0fe67 | And you, a king's daughter, who willingly gave herself to me--who brought me to her bed? Are you so high and pure?" She" | Tad Williams | ||
| 3fa885d | They were all becoming brothers, in the manner he had seen before: facing death together was the greatest of levelers. | courage friends | Tad Williams | |
| a2cb7ba | And what about lovers, like in the stories? Do they get married?" "Oh, yes. And sometimes they stay in love, but sometimes they don't. I would say it's one of the more untrustworthy reasons for marriage." | Tad Williams | ||
| 39c598b | Just sitting in her private room was fascinating. Her magazines lay on the table, from to as well as her newspapers--the at the top of the pile, obviously, if distressingly. After I had spent ten minutes on my own, she swept in, gushing: "I'm so sorry to have kept you, Piers. I hope Paul has been looking after you all right." And then came what was surely one of the most needless requests of all time: "Would you mind awfully if Willia.. | Larry King | ||
| 782ff4f | And that is why we do it, he decided. Because we hope it will bring us peace. But it never, never does.... Sludig | Tad Williams | ||
| 4cbd390 | I pray that I lose my voice before my tongue ever shames me. | Tad Williams | ||
| e7337ae | In a hole, in a hole." Skodi piped, ". . . in the ground, in a hole, where the wet-nosed mole sings a song of cold stone, and of mud and gray bone, a quiet, small song all the chill, dark night long as he digs in the deep, where the white worms creep, and the dead all sleep, with their eyes full of earth where the beetles give birth, laying little white eggs, and their brittle black legs go scrape, scrape, scrape, and the dark, like a cape,.. | Tad Williams | ||
| efd2506 | We were already fucked so many ways they could have dedicated an entire revision of the Kama Sutra just to us. | Tad Williams | ||
| 2818419 | When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity - a waste of precious time and effort. | time wisdom | Tad Williams | |
| 4ab12c6 | About Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States. Born in a log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky, in 1809, he grew up smart, even though he rarely attended school. While working as a postmaster and surveyor, he began to study law. He married Mary Todd in 1842. Abe eventually entered politics. Shortly after he was elected president in 1861, the Civil War began. Firm in his belief that a divided nation co.. | Gary Hines |