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But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.
Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.
Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known.
When England was a kingdom, we had a king. When we were an empire, we had an emperor. Now we're a country, and we have Margaret Thatcher.
Satan tried to put Jesus Christ on the way to becoming King of the world and Savior of men in a way other than that predetermined by God.
Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.
A decade passed between King's assassination and my birth, but the older I get, the more acutely aware I become that 10 years is nothing.
Kings and queens might do wicked things, but they don't nag. One thing I like about Bloody Mary: she never said a word about lung cancer.
Guns aren't toys! They're for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the King of England out of your face!
From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.
All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them.
The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say. They were the musicians.
We don't live in tyrannies, you know, the king doesn't decide what's legitimate, and there's much more freedom than there was in the past.
KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.
To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.
National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.
Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.
Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.
I looked at the cards in my hand, the queen of hearts nestled between the king of clubs and the king of spades. No wonder she was smiling.
Let's Face it, - Sinatra is a king. He's a very sharp operator, a keen record chief, and has a keen appreciation of what the public wants.
Your fey cousin here has the miraculous ability to hold his liquor--and mine, and yours, and the king's, and half the country's, I expect.
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.
As a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.
The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify.
He danced on the knife’s edge between awareness and sleep. When he dreamt like this, he was a king. The world was his to bend. His to burn.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
As a kid I got to like hang out with Stephen King. That was like the highlight of my life. Cause I think he's the raddest human being ever.
Christ does not control his subjects by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through His grace, freely devoted to His service.
I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While the wind howls and the vultures sing
There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.
Take as an example the wisdom of Joseph and his submission. Do battle in chastity and service until you make yourself a king (cf. Gen. 41).
Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.
Meek and drake happen to be two of the young kings with strong voices and followings that give people hope I hope they know this n b smart!
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.
When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.
Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to stop him
A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.
Do not enforce the tired wolf Dragging his infected wound homeward To sit tonight with the warm children Naming the pretty kings of France.
The choice is yours, brother. Live a thrall or die a king. Do you dare to fly? Unless you take the leap, you’ll never know." - Euron Greyjoy
Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
I bet The Walking Dead gets really low ratings out in Montana, just because all they need to do is look out their f-king window, am I right?
King Abdullah has died. A divisive figure in the Middle East. The sad irony is that the USA preached democracy in the face of absolute rule.
No stonger allies no greater friends no bigger fighters of honor could a king behould then these assembled afore me mine brothers mine blood
Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.