Algernon Sidney Quotes

If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.

Algernon Sidney

• May

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• Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • May
  • Sometimes
  • Famous

• Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • May
  • High
  • Like

• I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Mind
  • May
  • War

• Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • May
  • Attention
  • Sound

• Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • May
  • Know
  • Yourself

• Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • May
  • Morning

• Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • May
  • Silent
  • Hear

• There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • May
  • Beauty
  • See

• Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Important
  • May

• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • War
  • Purpose

• While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Heart
  • May
  • Hope

• Companies are always being bought and sold. The markets are always moving; you have to be on top of your position. And in the U.S., the market is never closed for more than three days. The only time the market was ever closed was 9/11. I think it may have been closed the whole week.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Time
  • May
  • Moving

• The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Long
  • May
  • Perfect

• The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • May
  • Future
  • Man

• In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • May
  • Intelligence
  • Stronger

• The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • May
  • Person
  • Evidence

• Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.

  

  Alex Flinn
  • Time
  • May
  • Taken

• Oftentimes, WWE lives in its own bubble because it is forever moving. Oftentimes, a motion picture will live in its own bubble because they have a certain amount of time to get everything done. It's just, when you connect the two and get everything straightened out, truly, it may take a little elbow grease.

  

  John Cena
  • Time
  • Live
  • Done

• O.K., we had women's lib in the '60s, the women fought for their roles, they're out there in the work force. Now let's talk about how they're dealing with things as human beings.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • Work
  • Women
  • Force

• I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

  

  Mark Gatiss

• I want to go to Italy and France; those are my two places. And I really want to go to Greece. I've seen so many pictures on Airbnb that make me think I should be living there. I could eat great salads and be on a boat.

  

  Mary Lambert
  • Great
  • Boat

• If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.

  

  Algernon Sidney
  • May