Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Boyle O'Reilly

Each heart holds the secret: 'Kindness' is the word.

John Bolton

Let me ask, who died and made him king? Who gave him the authority to endanger 300 million Americans? That's not the way it works, and if he thinks he can get away with that, he's got another think coming.

John Arbuthnot

King is a title which translated into several languages, signifies a magistrate with as many different degrees of power as there are kingdoms in the world, and he can have no power but what is given him by law; yea, even the supreme or legislative power is bound by the rules of equity, to govern by laws enacted, and published in due form; for what is not legal is arbitrary.

Maurice Sendak

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

Mattie Stepanek

People will come up to me everywhere and say, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Larry King,'' and, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Oprah.'' And it's really nice, and a lot of people say, 'Is it a pain?' And I say 'No.' And it's not annoying.

Matthew Arnold

The kings of modern thought are dumb.

Meg Cabot

Dear Mia, What can I say? I don't know all that much about romance novels, but I think you must be the Stephen King of the genre. Your book is hot. Thanks for letting me read it. Anyone who doesn't want to publish it is a fool. Anyway, since I know it's your birthday, and I also know you never remember to back anything up, here's a little something I made for you. It would be a shame if Ransom My Heart got lost before it ever saw the light of day because your hard drive crashed. See you tonight. Love, Michael

Maximilien Robespierre

Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: "The king is dead, long live the king", in order to make it understood that despotism is immortal! Now an entire people, moved by a sublime instinct, cried: Long live the Republic! to teach the universe that tyranny died with the tyrant.

Maximilien Robespierre

Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.

Maya Angelou

I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

Maya Angelou

Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.

Maya Angelou

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

Max Schneider

I did my first show when I was five and I was the King of the Oompa Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The kids theater company, I was the youngest one, so there wasnt a part for me, so they made me the king of the Oompa Loompas.

Maxim Gorky

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Max Beerbohm

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

Maurice Jarre

The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.

Maurice Gibb

I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.

Matthew Perry

I became a big Kings fan, and then later on my hometown of Ottawa got a team, so then I was very, very torn. I just love both of those teams very much.

Marina and the Diamonds

That's when you know you really fit with someone - when you can just sit there and not do anything. Kind of ignoring each other.

Marilynne Robinson

That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly unclothed when we lack the complacencies of ordinary life. In destitution, even of feeling or purpose, a human being is more hauntingly human and vulnerable to kindnesses because there is the sense that things should be otherwise, and then the thought of what is wanting and what alleviation would be, and how the soul could be put at ease, restored. At home. But the soul finds its own home if it ever has a home at all.

Maria Montessori

Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.

Matsuo Basho

I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.

Kimberly Caldwell

I love every kind of music.

Kenneth Williams

I didn't like the King's Cross world: it was grimy and dirty. I always envisioned myself in much more romantic and grand surroundings. I never really thought that I belonged to the working-class area at all.

Kathleen Hanna

I don't consider myself a divining rod whom God is speaking through or any kind of crap like that.

Karl Marx

This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.

Karl Marx

Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.

Jules Shear

Things kind of happen organically with me.

Jules Shear

A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.

Julia Child

We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person.

Judith Butler

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

We've got a lot of tired people around here. People have been working all kinds of hours.

We had to do something with our roster. We could have waited but we looked at all kinds of different possibilities, two-for-one (trades), things like that. We just couldn't come up with anything that worked.