#tho

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#authority #cannons #everywhere #further #greatest

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#age #around #ball #compelling #convincingly

My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#bread #butter #did #does #everything

I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over there, but it isn't. It's surprising. ↗

— Mark Roberts

#america #because #free #i #i always

I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked. ↗

— Mark Roberts

#away #broke #bus #buses #center

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#always #career #come #family #i

My treatment ended in March/April of '08. It wasn't until the end of that summer that I started to feel I wasn't depressed. Even when I went on vacation to Saint Lucia, I was kind of depressed, even though it was such a beautiful place. ↗

— Robin Roberts

#beautiful #beautiful place #depressed #end #ended

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#earnest #earnestly #ever #failure #freely

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#agreed #been #call #deeper #divine

Within NATO, our Defence Capabilities Initiative has identified the essential capabilities all Allies must have for modern operations, and Allies are working to meet those requirements. ↗

— Lord Robertson

#capabilities #defence #essential #identified #initiative