#palace

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland. ↗

— Anselm Kiefer

#because #believe #build #homeland #i

On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#cabinet #completely #form #his #i

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#does #fancy #head #invade #keeps

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#avenue #hands #hired #horror #i

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#civil servants #diplomats #drawn #foreign #get

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces! ↗

— Georg Buchner

#peace #war

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#conquer #dragons #fairy #fairy tales #fight

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#been #concentration #greatest #inside #los

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#always #citizens #did #dreams #ever

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#churches #cottage #easy #good #had