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You make kingdoms and castles on your own. -- Stephan Jenkins
The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality. -- Ma Jian
In my 20s, I became obsessed with the role-playing game 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms,' named after a classical Chinese novel, and later 'The Sims,' a life-simulation game, and 'StarCraft,' a science-fiction game. -- Kim Young-ha
'Three Kingdoms' gives you a panoply of different routes; everyone can find their own path. It shows that sometimes the route to fulfilment or success is not the obvious one. You must take twists and turns to achieve a goal. -- Ma Jian
Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors. -- Ihara Saikaku
There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms. -- Carl Linnaeus
I am Cersei of House Lannister, a lion of the Rock, the rightful queen of these Seven Kingdoms, trueborn daughter of Tywin Lannister. And hair grows back. -- George R. R. Martin
I would love to go and see the Himalayan Mountain Kingdoms. There are very few left now. I would loved to have gone to Tibet and Nepal. And there are still parts of central Asia that are utterly unexplored. -- David Attenborough
The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two. -- Jasper Fforde
Three Kingdoms' gives you a panoply of different routes; everyone can find their own path. It shows that sometimes the route to fulfilment or success is not the obvious one. You must take twists and turns to achieve a goal. -- Ma Jian
Woman?" She chuckled. "Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man." Dany met his stare. "I am Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons, khaleesi to Drogo's riders, and queen of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. -- George R. R. Martin
My mind's my kingdom. -- Francis Quarles
My Mind To Me a Kingdom Is. -- Edward Dyer
On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired. -- Andrew Young
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. -- Desiderius Erasmus
While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia. -- Hassanal Bolkiah
I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World. -- George Best
Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom. -- Sonya Levien
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen. -- John Keats
God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all. -- George Carey
And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation? -- Haniel Long
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. -- Jeremy Taylor
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. -- Kurt Vonnegut
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. -- Thomas Szasz
A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well. -- Louisa May Alcott
Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites. -- Diane Paulus
If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom. -- Keith Miller
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.' -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women. -- Gabriel Byrne
The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border. -- Goldwin Smith
If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead. -- William Law
That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it. -- Elie Wiesel
The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom. -- Uri Geller
I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception. -- H. P. Blavatsky
In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing. -- Johannes Tauler
The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth. -- Joanna Southcott
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. -- H. G. Wells
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. -- Sun Tzu
Our policy is to deepen the relations with all the countries in the world - monarchies, kingdoms, large powers - we want to respect all differences and have our relationships based on mutual respect. -- Hugo Chavez
I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. -- Mother Teresa
I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person. -- Jerzy Kosinski
The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them. -- Asa Gray
The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages. -- Charles Babbage
The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didn't write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges. -- Richard Matheson
May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates, may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies. -- Virchand Gandhi
The idea of introducing the Seven Seas is absolutely to challenge Aquaman on an emotional and personal level. His responsibility is unification of the world, and that just became a lot more complex when he learns about the fall of Atlantis and the splintering of the kingdoms. -- Geoff Johns
Ch'in Shih-huang is the first emperor of China. He united seven separate kingdoms into a single nation. He built the Great Wall and was buried with the terra-cotta soldiers. The Chinese have mixed feelings about him. They're proud of the nation he created, but he was a maniacal tyrant. -- Gene Luen Yang
We are seeing, we have seen in the last figures a significant drop in the number of net migrants coming into the United Kingdom. So we are cutting out abuse, we've restricted the number of economic - non-EU economic migrants. We're cutting out abuse across the student visa system, particularly, and we're having an impact. -- Theresa May
Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God has set popes over kings and kingdoms. -- Pope Boniface VIII
The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground. -- Stephen Vincent Benet
What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits. -- Saint Augustine
Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the world. -- J. C. Ryle
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish. -- Ezra Pound
Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark? -- Keri Hulme
Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures. -- Herman Melville
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Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books. -- Cardinal Richelieu
Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms. -- William Godwin
Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms. -- Saint Augustine
Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms? -- Augustine of Hippo
A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms. -- Og Mandino
Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition. -- Dallas Willard
A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms. -- Og Mandino
Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms. -- Beth Moore
A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth! -- Gustav Mahler
Let others make war, you happy Austria marry, for kingdoms given to others by Mars, Venus will give to you. -- Matthias Corvinus
If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I was nothing until you. -- Judith McNaught
How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything Iâ??d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms. -- Alice Hoffman
What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak? -- Abigail Adams
We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. -- Steve Almond
My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. -- Karen Russell
You never told me all this before," I said, by way of explanation. "You all have divided up America into kingdoms, is that right? -- Charlaine Harris
But it's true, kingdoms and crowns, a God who came down to find you. It's true, angels on high sing through the night, Alleluia. -- Sara Groves
You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination. -- Violet Trefusis
The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the Caliphate, but also of Mohammadan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared. -- William Muir
I do think of myself as a queen, but I don't think I'm the only queen. There's room for other queens. We reign over different kingdoms. -- Madonna Ciccone
This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love from dying. -- Kate DiCamillo
The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there. -- Alistair Cooke
Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception. -- H. P. Blavatsky
There is an erroneous tendency to view empire-building by rulers from urban-agrarian kingdoms (Alexander, for example) as strategic genius, while treating nomad imperial conquests like natural disasters. -- James A. Millward
You can knock down kingdoms on a whim. What you need is someone to make sure you don't get hit by a carriage when you cross the street. -- Scott Lynch
There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms. -- Wendell Phillips
The kingdom of God, which Jesus came to inaugurate, is meant to create an alternate reality in this world, and ultimately to transform the kingdoms of this world. -- Jim Wallis
Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling. -- Carl Linnaeus
Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms. -- William E. Gladstone
Not for the mighty world. O Lord, tonight, Nations and kingdoms in their fearful might--Let me be glad the kettle gently sings, Let me be grateful for little things. -- Edna Jaques
The kingdoms of Africa and Mesopotamia, machine gunning your body with depleted uranium, this is the age of microchips and titanium, the dark side of the moon, and contact with aliens. -- Immortal Technique
We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction. -- Israelmore Ayivor
If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all. -- Francois Fenelon
We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. -- Henry David Thoreau
You can make a lot of money. You can rule kingdoms or run huge businesses or control vast terrain. But if you're just doing it for yourself, you're not really a success. -- Tony Robbins
The kingdoms' people were at the mercy of the natures of those who rose to be their rulers. It was a gamble, and the current generation did not make for a winning hand. -- Kristin Cashore
Some day, Prince Kheldar, you will fall in love," the queen said with a little smirk, "and the twelve kingdoms will stand around and chortle over the fall of so notorious a bachelor. -- David Eddings
We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands: We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl, We progress, and we prog from pole to pole. -- Francis Quarles
Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of them are bound by the cycle of birth and death. They all come into being for a while and then vanish. -- Frederick Lenz
Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. -- Thomas Paine
Manâ??s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. â?¦ Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells -- Allen Ginsberg

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