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“There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.”

Trying Real Fun Creative Risk Danger Position Kings Mountain Taking Risks

Author:Sissy Spacek

“Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.”

Winning Danger Kings Skills Wagers Courtiers

Book:Foundation

Source: Foundation

“How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the sake of the security of Greece? For who is not aware that Greece would have constantly stood in the greater danger, had we not been fenced by the Macedonians and the honorable ambition of their kings?”

Should Fighting Greater Security Danger Kings Honor Ambition Sake Cease Honorable Greece Barbarians Macedonia

Book:Polybius: the histories

Source: Polybius: the histories

“To stand on the firing parapet and expose yourself to danger; to stand and fight a thousand miles from home when you're all alone and outnumbered and probably beaten; to spit on your hands and lower the pike; to stand fast over the body of Leonidas the King; to be rear guard at Kunu-Ri; to stand and be still to the Birkenhead Drill; these are not rational acts. They are often merely necessary.”

Stills Home Body Hands Fighting Danger Kings Thousand Miles Rational Beaten Spit All Alone Drills Firing Thousand Miles

Author:Jerry Pournelle

“This [Magna Carta] has been forced from the King. It constitutes an insult to the Holy See, a serious weakening of the royal power, a disgrace to the English nation, a danger to all Christendom, since this civil war obstructs the crusade. Therefore?we condemn the charter and forbid the King to keep it, or the barons and their supporters to make him do so, on pain of excommunication.”

Has Beens War Pain Nations Danger Serious Kings Holy Civil War Insult Supporter Royal Disgrace Crusades Charter Weakening Christendom Magna Carta Excommunication

Author:Pope Innocent III

“The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character of Theodosius might furnish the subject of a sincere and ample panegyric. The wisdom of his laws and the success of his arms rendered his administration respectable in the eyes both of his subjects and of his enemies. He loved and practised the virtues of domestic life, which seldom hold their residence in the palaces of kings.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)

“But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to stop the army, and not to neglect but maintain the Roman cause, now in extreme danger. The prayer was no sooner made, than shame and respect for their king checked many; the fears of the fugitives changed suddenly into confidence.”

Made Hands Faces Heaven Causes Prayer Numbers Danger Changed Kings Army Shame Extremes Neglect Daring Stretching Jupiter Romulus

Book:Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

“No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain's heroic past. His gigantic qualities set him apart from ordinary humanity; there seemed no danger he feared, no effort too great for his limitless energies.”

Country Past Humanity Energy Effort Quality Leader Danger Kings Ordinary Brave Traditional Britain Heroic Limitless Authentic Happiness Magnanimous

Book:Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life

Source: Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life

“Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.”

Stories Father Stars Century Danger Humility Taught Son Huge Kings Hero Lovers Drama Ancient Expanding Taught Us Hubris Father And Son Star Crossed Lovers Primacy Martyred Pantheon

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong To Cowardly Lion:"As for you my fine friend, you are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.Frank Morgan as the Wizard of Oz "Courage faces fear and thereby masters it."Martin Luther King, Jr. "These days I'm feeling all right'cept I can't tell my courage from my desperation”

“The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.”

Modern Danger Kings Quiet Useless Removal Appendix

Author:Austin O'Malley

“The polar bear for many has become a living symbol of the dangers of global warming. The powerful kings of the arctic are finding their habitat shrinking.”

Powerful Danger Bears Kings Findings Symbols Global Warming Shrinking Arctic Habitat Polar Bears

Author:Sam Champion

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

“The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.”

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Author:Mary Wollstonecraft