“Is it enough to be a princess, when being a princess means nothing?”
Alex Flinn (1966) American children's writer
Source: A Kiss in Time
Source: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Suldrun's Garden (1983), Chapter 3, section 3 (p. 31)
“Is it enough to be a princess, when being a princess means nothing?”
Alex Flinn (1966) American children's writer
Source: A Kiss in Time
Tristan Corbière (1845–1875) French poet
Heures, http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Heures third stanza, from Les arountia tyinse (1865).
“Eeek,” Shane said. Nothing. Right, Amazon princess, I got the point.”
Rachel Caine (1962) American writer
Source: Last Breath
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
Guardian Camwar, in Ch. 4 : the cooper<!-- p. 42 -->
Source: The Visitor (2002)
Context: You asked for wisdom? Hear these words. Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.
“Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying”
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist