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'Kingdom of Heaven ' the movie

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JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
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KELLY JONES When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did...
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MELANIE GRIFFITH Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of ...
ECKHART TOLLE The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
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CHARLES CUMMING No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who c...
JANE AUSTEN I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Open your mind. Accept differences. Yearn for peace. Heal the world.
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MAX LANDIS Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the...
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KEVIN FEIGE A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'...
RIDLEY SCOTT Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.
DALE MURPHY I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it...
JESUS CHRIST A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place...
ANKITA SINGHAL A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what i...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg
KAHLIL GIBRAN The Wonder Woman that you see in 'Batman v Superman' is a woman who has been around, and she...
GAL GADOT The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion...
MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
JOHN BURROUGHS The simplest way to better the world is one good deed at a time.
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GENE SIMMONS What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive ...
H. P. LOVECRAFT She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
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ISABEL ALLENDE Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movi...
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BUCHI EMECHETA There's not a man, woman or child on the face of the earth who doesn't enjoy a tasty beverag...
DAVID LETTERMAN The man who holds the key to a woman's heart should make certain the old ones are destroyed.
MINNA ANTRIM A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.
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RICK RIORDAN You don't try to do anything that Morgan Freeman does. He was the voice of God in a movie. That&...
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ANNA JULIA COOPER I'm not resigning, and I'm going to try very hard to go back to work a better man and a bett...
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CONDOLA RASHAD Why does a woman want equality with men when she is already much better than a man? Is she not a mot...
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ALEXIS STEWART I wanted to tell you that the man who is your father, the man who gave you life, has found a woman w...
SCOTT SPENCER We all belong to the world, and the world belongs to us all.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, m...
TARAJI P. HENSON The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
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TAYLOR LAUTNER Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls; Who, when he had...
BIBLE The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serve...
JOE WALSH The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to thi...
KANYE WEST The true beauty of a woman is her inherent ability to make better a man in every way.
DON WILLIAMS, JR The true beauty of a woman is her inherent ability to make better a man in every way.
DON WILLIAMS, JR. The true beauty of a woman is her inherent ability to make better a man in every way.
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VIRGIL The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to d...
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AUDREY MEADOWS It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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JOHN O'DONOHUE Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore...
JOHN O'DONOHUE If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it w...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of...
JOHN O'DONOHUE All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and...
JOHN O'DONOHUE You are as young as you feel. If you begin to feel the warmth of your soul, there will be a youthful...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.
JOHN O'DONOHUE You are like nobody since I love you"
-Pablo Neruda

This art of love discloses the ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuri...
JOHN O'DONOHUE If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to sti...
JOHN O'DONOHUE The heart is the inner face of your life. The human journey strives to make this inner face beautifu...
JOHN O'DONOHUE It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.
JOHN O'DONOHUE you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care...
TIM O'BRIEN It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and dange...
TIM O'BRIEN ...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe...
TIM O'BRIEN But this too is true: stories can save us.
TIM O'BRIEN They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of th...
TIM O'BRIEN The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.
NUALA O'FAOLAIN There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrib...
JOHN O'DONOHUE A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and com...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I’d begun to think of the Immortality Bus as the Entropy Bus, and of ourselves as trundling across...
MARK O'CONNELL It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.
LOUIS L'AMOUR Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore...
EDNA O'BRIEN I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to t...
P.J. O'ROURKE And although in many cases these unions proved happy enough, sailors being excellent husbands, often...
PATRICK O'BRIAN For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biograph...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable....
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I write to discover what I know.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three t...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt t...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE My body is not my own any more. They have stamped their names all over it.
LOUISE O'NEILL The beauty that emerges from woundedness is a beauty infused with feeling; a beauty different from t...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Then Dad started going on about the complex geological formations in this part of the coast until Mu...
KERRIE O'CONNOR Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, who...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I love, therefore I am vulnerable.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than w...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Having a Coke with You

is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biar...
FRANK O'HARA Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay....
FLANNERY O'CONNOR She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It wou...
STEWART O'NAN I would not hurt you, little man,' he said.

'I think that I got the disorder in Mullingar...
FLANN O'BRIEN Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is wi...
ROSIE O'DONNELL