Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.
The storm is ended! The impartial sunLaughs down upon the battle lost and won,And crowns the triumph of the cloudy hostIn rolling lines retreating to the coast.
Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.
There's no question about it. Beaumarie St. Claire and I, we created Irish DreamTime after GoldenEye hit. We made movies like Thomas Crown and The Matador. And in between my stints as James Bond, I'd go off and I'd do something like The Matador or Tailor of Panama, which was spy related, just so I could shake it up. It's a genre which really appeals to me.
The hand that wields the knife shall never wear the crown.
When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph.
If you say the Rosary faithfully unto death, I do assure you that, in spite of the gravity of your sins, 'you will receive a never-fading crown of glory'
. . from this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. And even now, To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done.
When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.
I don't want to get them in trouble for crimes in the early '90s - but there was usually like one pub that was the soft touch in terms of you could get served under 18, and that pub was The Rose and Crown.
Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.
The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could ‘most talent’ be determined? So Indian society settled on age.
I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.
Lord, reserve for me a crown, And do not let my shares go down.
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. [Lat. , Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato; Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema. ]
Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.