Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.
I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.
Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.
My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.
Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.
I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.
The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.
The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life.
Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.
The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.
Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.
The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.
Egoistical opinion that a man is the king of nature was created by the man himself, so he can justify his wrong decisions.
Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.
This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise.
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
There is something f-king unbelievable about seeing all of the fans go crazy and chanting 'Ozzy!' I would pay to see them.
Who would come for her?" he snarled, rallying. Behind me, a voice shouted, "Tybalt, King of Cats. My claim precedes yours.
The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old.
I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.
Kings need the world, but the world does not need the kings! Let them disappear like the horrible ghosts of the nightmares!
We three kings of Orient are. Bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain. Following yonder star.
It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.
Rest you well, beloved Jesus, Caesar’s Lord and Israel’s King, In the brooding of the Spirit, in the darkness of the spring
I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
He's bad, bad Leroy Brown, baddest dude in the whole damn town, badder than old King Kong, and meaner than a junk yard dog.
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things.
Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.
There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.
For to be yong I wald not, for my wis, Off all this warld to mak me lord and king: The more of age, the nerar hevynnis blis.
A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.
God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.
His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish.
If you're demanding a rodeo jester be thrown in the dungeons for mocking the king, don't pretend you support a free country.
I worked in a barbershop. I used to make the waves in the brother's hair, you know? Like, Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson.
If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?
My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.
I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.
This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.