#palaces

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#been #boundaries #build #compelling #creation

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. ↗

— Horace

#beats #equally #gate #kings #man

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks. ↗

— Ada Louise Huxtable

#clearly #clerks #endless #endless series #mock

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#great #i #kings #old #palaces

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#chosen #destruction #his #hussein #mass

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