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They reminded me, however, of soldiers in the Crusades, the Wars of the Roses or the Norman Conquest. Thick, but willing to fight anyone if told to ~ Karl Wiggins
Norman Conquest quotes by Karl Wiggins
There is a vast expanse of time before the Norman Conquest in 1066, from which fragments of literary texts remain, although these fragments make quite a substantial body of work. If we consider that the same expanse of time has passed between Shakespeare's time and now as passed between the earliest extant text and 1066, we can begin to imagine just how much literary expression there must have been. But these centuries remain largely dark to us, apart from a few illuminating flashes and fragments, since almost all of it was never written down, and since most of what was preserved in writing was destroyed later, particularly during the 1530s. ~ Ronald Carter
Norman Conquest quotes by Ronald Carter
I do think that the legacy of the Norman conquest is still strong in Britain. Our hereditary monarchy, our established church, our ancient county structures, though hollowed out in many ways, are a direct result of what happened in 1066. ~ Paul Kingsnorth
Norman Conquest quotes by Paul Kingsnorth
For years, walking round London, I had been aware of the actual land, lying concealed but not entirely changed or destroyed, beneath the surface of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century city. It has been said that 'God made the country and man made the town', but that is not true: the town is simply disguised countryside. Main roads, some older than history itself, still bend to avoid long-dried marshes, or veer off at an angle where the wall of a manor house once stood. Hills and valleys still remain; rivers, even though entombed in sewer pipes, still cause trouble in the foundations of neighbouring buildings and become a local focus for winter mists. Garden walls follow the line of hedgerows; the very street-patterns have been determined by the holdings of individual farmers and landlords, parcels of land some of which can be traced back to the Norman Conquest. The situation of specific buildings - pubs, churches, institutions - often dates from long distant decisions and actions on the part of men whose names have vanished from any record. ~ Gillian Tindall
Norman Conquest quotes by Gillian Tindall
Don't be scared by the word authority. Believing things on authority only means believing them because you've been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority. I believe there is such a place as New York. I haven't seen it myself. I couldn't prove by abstract reasoning that there must be such a place. I believe it because reliable people have told me so. The ordinary man believes in the Solar System, atoms, evolution, and the circulation of the blood on authority -because the scientists say so. Every historical statement in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada. None of us could prove them by pure logic as you prove a thing in mathematics. We believe them simply because people who did see them have left writings that tell us about them: in fact, on authority. A man who jibbed at authority in other things as some people do in religion would have to be content to know nothing all his life. ~ C.S. Lewis
Norman Conquest quotes by C.S. Lewis
We tend to think of the Norman Conquest as the turning point in the history of England. But the Saxon Conquest was even more important, since it created both the reality and the idea of England itself. ~ David Starkey
Norman Conquest quotes by David Starkey
Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs. ~ Norman Mailer
Norman Conquest quotes by Norman Mailer
We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth. ~ Norman Cousins
Norman Conquest quotes by Norman Cousins
Everybody really knows what to do to have his life filled with joy. What is it? Quit hating people; start loving them. Quit being mad at people; start liking them. Quit doing wrong; quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about yourself and go out and do something for other people. Everybody knows what you have to do to be happy. But the wisdom of the test lies in the final words: "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them." ~ Norman Vincent Peale
Norman Conquest quotes by Norman Vincent Peale
It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine. ~ Dick Cavett
Norman Conquest quotes by Dick Cavett
In my career, I've found that only annoying people knock on open doors. ~ Matthew Norman
Norman Conquest quotes by Matthew Norman
For Marx, nature is to be subjugated in order to obey history; for Nietzsche, nature is to be
obeyed in order to subjugate history. It is the difference between the Christian and the Greek. Nietzsche,
at least, foresaw what was going to happen: "Modern socialism tends to create a form of secular
Jesuitism, to make instruments of all men"; and again: "What we desire is well-being. ... As a result we
march toward a spiritual slavery such as has never been seen. . . . Intellectual Caesarism hovers over
every activity of the businessman and the philosopher." Placed in the crucible of Nietzschean philosophy,
rebellion, in the intoxication of freedom, ends in biological or historical Caesarism. The absolute negative had driven Stirner to deify crime simultaneously with the individual. But the absolute affirmative leads to
universalizing murder and mankind simultaneously. Marxism-Leninism has really accepted the burden
of Nietzsche's freewill by means of ignoring several Nietzschean virtues. The great rebel thus creates with
his own hands, and for his own imprisonment, the implacable reign of necessity. Once he had escaped
from God's prison, his first care was to construct the prison of history and of reason, thus putting the
finishing touch to the camouflage and consecration of the nihilism whose conquest he claimed. ~ Albert Camus
Norman Conquest quotes by Albert Camus
From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. JOHN 1:16 JUNE 14 Health and prosperity can be yours. I realize that you may regard this as a very extravagant assertion - a big order, so to speak; but please remember that I do not make this assertion on my own authority. I have this on the authority of the wisest Book ever written. The Bible isn't as fearful of promising big things as some of the more timid, halfhearted preachers of the gospel. The Bible makes superlative promises, because its promises are inspired by a loving and omnipotent God. But the Bible is also very subtle. And it points out that the blessings of health and prosperity are not easily given or easily received. Parenthetically, I want to say that by prosperity, the Bible does not mean merely material affluence; it means to enter abundantly into the blessings of God's grace. And it tells us that health and prosperity come to us when our soul is in harmony with ~ Norman Vincent Peale
Norman Conquest quotes by Norman Vincent Peale
Norman Lear considers almost any Christian who speaks up for and acts on his or her faith to be 'dangerous.' ~ Donald Wildmon
Norman Conquest quotes by Donald Wildmon
Law Number XLVIII: The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to spend doing what you have been talking about. Eventually, you spend more and more time talking about less and less until finally you spend all your time talking about nothing. ~ Norman Ralph Augustine
Norman Conquest quotes by Norman Ralph Augustine
When the kingdom of God is manifested, it's obvious. It looks like Jesus. But America as a nation has clearly never looked remotely like Jesus. There was nothing distinctively Christlike about the way America was "discovered," conquered, or governed in the early years. To the contrary, the way this nation was "discovered," conquered, and governed was a rather typical, barbaric, violent, kingdom-of-the-world affair. The immoral barbarism displayed in the early (and subsequent) years of this country was, sadly, pretty typical by kingdom-of-the-world standards. The fact that it was largely done under the banner of Christ doesn't make it more Christian, any more than any other bloody conquest done in Jesus' name throughout history (such as the Crusades and the Inquisition) qualifies them as Christlike. ~ Gregory A. Boyd
Norman Conquest quotes by Gregory A. Boyd
I feel more Scottish than Norman. ~ Alexander McQueen
Norman Conquest quotes by Alexander McQueen
It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. ~ Norman Schwarzkopf
Norman Conquest quotes by Norman Schwarzkopf
The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition. ~ Charles Nicolle
Norman Conquest quotes by Charles Nicolle
She led them to their pallets, again encircled by other pallets. She sat down, sighing at her aching muscles, and caught his gaze. "You may, er, wrap your arms around me if that will make you feel I am safer."
He chuckled--a hoarse chuckle, rusty, but a chuckle nonetheless. She'd take it.
"May I indeed?" He lay beside her and pulled her back against him, settling her head on his arm, bunching the other hide up to use as a pillow. "If I must." His warm sigh tickled across her neck. "After all, I must ensure that pinkie does not wander."
Would Robert never let her forget that? ~ Angela Quarles
Norman Conquest quotes by Angela Quarles
She's a firm believer in the healing power of normality. The ordinary little things: the sharing of stories, of food, of smiles, of small comforts. These are the key to survival. Pg 118 ~ Charity Norman
Norman Conquest quotes by Charity Norman
There is no point in trying to remember your dreams ... There is only the unspeakable joy of eavesdropping on your spirit, catching tiny glimpses of its independent life, resting for a moment in its wisdom, puzzling, laughing sometimes, over what it's up to, what it makes of you. ~ Marsha Norman
Norman Conquest quotes by Marsha Norman
Red had a deep loathing of the night before them. He had been through so much combat, had felt so many kinds of terror, and had seen so many men killed that he no longer had any illusions about the inviolability of his own flesh. He knew he could be killed; it was something he had accepted long ago, and he had grown a shell about that knowledge so that he rarely thought of anything further ahead than the next few minutes ... ~ Norman Mailer
Norman Conquest quotes by Norman Mailer
The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome. ~ Donald Norman
Norman Conquest quotes by Donald Norman
Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development through foreign rules. Thus, each one of us becomes the financial slave, which is to say a true slave ... ~ Thomas Sankara
Norman Conquest quotes by Thomas Sankara
I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward. ~ Norman Wisdom
Norman Conquest quotes by Norman Wisdom
Cherish love, Marcus. Make it your greatest conquest, your sole ambition. After men, there will be other men. After books, there will be other books. After glory, there will be other glories. After money, there will be yet more money. But after love, Marcus, after love, there is nothing but the salt from tears. ~ Joel Dicker
Norman Conquest quotes by Joel Dicker
He was a cynic and like most cynics, totally selfish and self-indulgent. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
Norman Conquest quotes by Norman Vincent Peale
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. ~ Norman Mailer
Norman Conquest quotes by Norman Mailer
Moskowitz became a world leader in the use of neuroplasticity for treating pain only after making some discoveries while treating himself. A ~ Norman Doidge
Norman Conquest quotes by Norman Doidge
What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new war. ~ Norman Mailer
Norman Conquest quotes by Norman Mailer
Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds. ~ J. Norman Collie
Norman Conquest quotes by J. Norman Collie
When I was awarded a fellowship in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts (for "Alphabets"), I felt myself suddenly (vaingloriously) equal to my Crow, which would be - I knew at once - Rat. ~ Norman Lock
Norman Conquest quotes by Norman Lock
caffeine-infused tsunami of words. ~ Matthew Norman
Norman Conquest quotes by Matthew Norman
There is a strange lack of dignity in conquest; the dull, uncomplaining endurance of defeat appears more worthy of congratulation. ~ Vera Brittain
Norman Conquest quotes by Vera Brittain
I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army, and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional. I'd like to think I'm a caring human being. ~ Norman Schwarzkopf
Norman Conquest quotes by Norman Schwarzkopf
The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me. ~ Norman McLaren
Norman Conquest quotes by Norman McLaren
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