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  • And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts.

    "Journal of the First Voyage" by Christopher Columbus, November 27, 1492.
  • Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want

    Strong   Fate   Want  
  • Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

  • Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and sincere zeal; and I do not lie. I humbly beseech Your Highnesses that, if it please God to remove me hence, you will help me to go to Rome and on other pilgrimages.

    Hope   Honesty   Lying  
    Lettera Rarissima to the Sovereigns, Fourth Voyage, July 7, 1503.
  • Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.

    FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 27, 2012
  • You send me all these roses. Every time I think the last bouquet has arrived, finally, another turns up. I’m running out of vases. I didn’t know roses came in so many colors. You say they’re the perfect symbols of love because they have thorns and love is pain. I say life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. And you don’t get it. You say you love me, but you don’t speak my language. You don’t even realize I’m an orchid girl.

    Girl   Running   Pain  
  • I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

    Dog   Praying   Highness  
    "Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness" (1738) See Nursery Rhymes 15
  • Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.

    Letter to the Sovereigns, Third Voyage, October 18, 1498.
  • Penny said two words, the second of which was "you." Caine laughed. "I think you meant '---- you, Your Highness.

    Thinking   Two   Pennies  
  • Princess Diana talking to Prince William about the loss of her title Her Royal Highness: She turned to William in her distress. She (Princess Diana) told me how he had sat with her one night when she was upset over the loss of HRH, put his arms around her and said: Don't worry, Mummy. I will give it back to you one day when I am king.

    Kings   Princess   Loss  
  • Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.

    Letter to Horace Mann, 28 Jan. 1754. Coinage of the word serendipity.
  • I cast a glance in my new admirer's direction. "You may call me Your Highness," I said. "Or Empress Beauty." He chuckled. I wasn't kidding.

    May   Admirer   Empresses  
    Gena Showalter (2012). “Animal Instincts”, p.283, Harlequin
  • To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

  • Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

    Life   Pain   Selling  
  • Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

    Farewell Remarks to White House Cabinet and Staff, delivered 9 August 1974
  • When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

    Egypt   Doe   Boards  
    Voltaire (2016). “Candide”, p.97, Xist Publishing
  • The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself to him with the annual salary of one thousand florins, and with the title of Philosopher and Principal Mathematicial to His Highness; without the duties of office to perform, but with the most complete leisure; so that I can complete my Treatises.

    Science   Office   Dukes  
  • The most extraordinary of all the things called miracles, related in the New Testament, is that of the devil flying away with Jesus Christ, and carrying him to the top of a high mountain; and to the top of the highest pinnacle of the temple, and showing him and promising to him all the kingdoms of the world . How happened it that he did not discover America? or is it only with kingdoms that his sooty highness has any interest.

    Jesus   America   Miracle  
    Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.58
  • Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion.

    Music   Safe   Way  
  • Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of earth, to the highness, the fullness and to the all-sufficiency of heaven.

    Edward McKendree Bounds (1924). “The Reality of Prayer”, p.17, CCEL
  • Of this voyage, I observe, that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by the many signal miracles that He has shown on the voyage, and for me, who for so great a time was in the court of Your Highnesses with the opposition and against the opinion of so many high personages of your household, who were all against me, alleging this undertaking to be folly, which I hope in Our Lord will be to the greater glory of Christianity, which to some slight extent already has happened.

    Time   Writing   Miracle  
    "Journal of the First Voyage". Book by Bartolomé de Las Casas. Entry for March 15, 1493,
  • He [Kai] blinked. His eyes fell as he processed her response. Then he lifted his chin and attempted a grin that was almost painfully dejected. "No, it's all right. I understand." Dr. Erland leaned back against his desk. "My sincerest condolences, Your Highness. In more ways than one, it seems.

    Condolences   Eye   Drs  
  • Violet heard the coughing and came running back. She sank down on the bench beside Rose, putting her arm around the older girl and holding a handkerchief to Rose's lips. "What happened?" she asked Galen, her tone just shy of being accusatory. "I am so sorry, Your Highness," Galen said, backing away. "I made her laugh, and–" "You made her laugh?" Violet's eyes widened. "She hasn't laughed in weeks!" She smiled at Galen and gave Rose's shoulders a little squeeze.

    Girl   Running   Sorry  
  • Steadying herself with both hands on the table, she managed an awkward bow.... 'Your Highness,' she stammered, head lowered... The prince flinched and cast a glance over his shoulder before hunching toward her. 'Maybe, um...' - he pulled his fingers across his lips - 'on the Highness stuff?

    Hands   Awkward   Tables  
  • The difference between this film [Your highness] and Pineapple Express was pretty much in the logistics of the technical ambition of the movie, and the size and scope of the movie. Pineapple Express was a great success, and that was something that we wanted to capitalize on, but we wanted this movie to be bigger, more adventuresome, bring a bigger audience to the movie, and challenge ourselves to do something new.

    Source: collider.com
  • Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.

    Queens   Hands   Office  
    "Queen urges Cwealth leaders to be bold". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. October 28, 2011.
  • [To a photographer who said, 'Look this way, love':] I am not your 'love.' I am Your Royal Highness!

    Looks   Way   Royal  
  • I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

    Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.54
  • Let me guess, Velkan wants to see me? (Esperetta) No. The only thing His Highness would like to see in regards to you, Princess, is your disembowelment. (Raluca)

    Princess   Want   Let Me  
  • Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

    Food   Cooking   Culinary  
    William Shakespeare (1868). “The Works of William Shakspeare. Life, Glossary, &c. Reprinted from the Original Edition, and Compared with All Recent Commentators”, p.531
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