Robert Lacey quotes

“Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.”
-- Robert Lacey

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“There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir, Harry is expected by the royal family to take the ultimate military risks.”
-- Robert Lacey

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“The Billy Carter of the British monarchy.”
-- Robert Lacey

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“Saud bin Abd al-Aziz was the moon-faced, shortsighted, bespectacled son of the old founder of Saudi Arabia, who'd always been his father's protege but had never quite lived up to everything that his father had.”
-- Robert Lacey

#Father Quotes #Son Quotes #Moon Quotes

“I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the religious police; there were the rules; there were the prayer times. But it was as if we were existing in two separate universes. The Westerners were just allowed to get on with their way of life.”
-- Robert Lacey

#Religious Quotes #Prayer Quotes #Two Quotes

“My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.”
-- Robert Lacey

#School Quotes #Sunday Quotes #Boys Quotes

“It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.”
-- Robert Lacey

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“Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.”
-- Robert Lacey

#Anger And Fear Quotes #Violence Quotes #States Quotes

“Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.”

“Human nature makes it easy to bicker like children, but the human heart makes it possible to squelch the noise our head creates.”

“When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.”

“A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.”

Source : "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

“If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.”

Source : Bill Hybels (2010). “The Power of a Whisper: Hearing God, Having the Guts to Respond”, p.11, Zondervan

“Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.”

“I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.”

“The self is the modern substitute for the soul.”

“Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.”

Source : "At 90, an Environmentalist From the '70s Still Has Hope". Interview With Thomas Vinciguerra, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2007.

“Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the likelihood of extreme weather.”

Source : "A Night in New York" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2010.