Empress Dowager Cixi Quotes

Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.

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• I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Years
  • Working
  • London

• I consider the modernization of the Middle East the central challenge of our time. This region behaves as if it were disturbed, if you'll excuse the clinical expression.

  

  Zalmay Khalilzad
  • Time
  • Challenge

• The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • People
  • Dangerous
  • Ignorant

• Who is here so vile that will not love his country?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Country

• There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Joy
  • Eye
  • Glory

• People want it to be red, like blood. It's kind of funny. When I used to throw meat into the audience, I'd get letters from kids' mothers saying, "What's the best way to get blood stains out of my son's shirt?"

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Mother
  • Kind

• It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Country
  • London
  • Begins

• We are sticking with the plan. We have a plan to get taxes down, to get regulation down, to get productivity up, to create jobs, to reduce taxes, to boost prosperity. The plan is working and we are sticking with it.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Taxes
  • Prosperity
  • Productivity

• Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling - is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults: don't be afraid, don't tremble - the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even brain: it is stuffed.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Brain
  • Waiting
  • Critics

• It is so much easier for them to talk about what has been done to them—to tell a story of victimization and revenge—than to notice, feel, and put into words the reality of their internal experience.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Experience
  • Revenge
  • Victimization

• I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Accused
  • Rashness
  • Sluggishness

• I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Offensive

• Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

  

  Adam Lindsay Gordon
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Kindness

• Bullfighting has some of the elements of a sport or contest, and in the United States most people think of it as a sport, an unfair sport. If you're in Spain or Mexico it's absolutely not a sport; it's not thought of as a sport and it's not written about as a sport. It has elements of public spectacle, but then so does, for example, the Super Bowl. It has elements of a deeply entrenched, deeply conservative tradition, a tradition that resists change, as you pointed out.

  

  Bette Ford
  • Change
  • Tradition
  • Example

• You men,' she says. 'You durn men.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Men

• Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.

  

  Empress Dowager Cixi
  • Heavy
  • Tails
  • Wags