After 'Jewel In the Crown,' I hardly worked at all for about six months - which came as a bit of a surprise, I have to admit.
Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: That I have reigned with your loves.
Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
People crown kings and queens at homecoming parades all the time. We do a lot of things in our society that are simply symbolic.
Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.
That Oscar can be a jinx... It can... damage irreparably one's relations with family, friends. It's an uneasy head that wears the crown.
The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of satire.
And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, "O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief.
I'm not being presumptuous, I hope, when I say that 'The Crown' is little bit like 'The Godfather.' It is essentially about a family in power and survival.
Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
ur struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown - although it often seems that way.
I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.
I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.
It is almost impossible for the poetess, once laurelled, to take off the crown for good or to reject values and taste of those who tender it.
Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.
The monarchy is thousands of years old and has experienced many things like 'The Crown' in the past. They're always changing and evolving; that's the thing. They have to.
It's ridiculous that Claire Foy got paid less than Matt Smith on 'The Crown.' That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
I do not really know if it is a gain to exchange the crown of martrydom with two or three years of life in freedom. But I leave the good Lord to decide.
At the concert I'm going to crown the best looking man, Mr. Tampa. Bald men definitely have an edge.
My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.
These crowns symbolize something greater than just a Miss California state crown. They carry a meaning of love, strength and unity for all.
We loved 'The Crown.' And 'The Killing' and 'The Fall' with Gillian Anderson. All those crime shows are always super fun.
While Melbourne and Sydney fight about who wears Australia's cultural crown, Canberra just gets on with it.
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.
As the country's third-largest state by population, Florida is the crown jewel in the Electoral College among swing states.
By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.
If you grow up where a snow mountain lifts its proud crown on the home horizon, in some strange way it becomes a member of the family.
Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.
I won a noble fame;
But with a sudden frown,
The people snatched my crown,
And, in the mire, trod down
My lofty name.
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.
In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators.
As Trevor Noah recently quipped, the US appears ready to crown its first African dictator: Donald Trump.
Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.
I've been passionate about fitness my entire life, and the ability to compete for the 'Tough Enough' crown is truly rewarding.
The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.
I went to my first game May 30, 1956, and Mantle was in the beginnings of his Triple Crown season. And he was drop-dead handsome.
Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe?
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
I spent a lot of time in Brooklyn as a kid. I was born in New York, and my grandmother lived in Crown Heights, so there's a part of it that I feel this connection to.
A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem
There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.
This time, we went up to Big Bear for 3-4 weeks and sequestered ourselves writing this album [ "The Black Crown"].
What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Savior in all its fullness!
To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.
God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.
Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
By the way, when you finish the bottle of Crown Royal, you can still use the pouch to hold your broken dreams.
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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.
A crown! what is it?
It is to bear the miseries of a people!
To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents,
And sink beneath a load of splendid care!
In many people's minds, Everest has lost her crown. She has become a mountain synonymous with death, exploitation and pollution.
Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world.
When I was a child my mother used to pay me half a crown - 12.5 pence - to wash her car each week.
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
I know I'm sane I don't give a care for the crown or the shield I will not protect you or happily yield To the one who makes me come undone
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