Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Stafford

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

William Pitt

The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow though it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England may not enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.

William Landay

I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.

Wilhelm Steinitz

I play my king all over the board. I make him fight!

Wilhelm Steinitz

Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game

Wilhelm Steinitz

The King is a fighting piece. Use it!

Wilhelm Steinitz

In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.

Walter Savage Landor

Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.

Walter Savage Landor

A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.

Walter Savage Landor

When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

Walter Savage Landor

There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.

Walter Savage Landor

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

Walter Savage Landor

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.

Walter Scott

Look not thou on beauty's charming; Sit thou still when kings are arming; Taste not when the wine-cup glistens; Speak not when the people listens

Yitzhak Rabin

[Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat.

Winston Churchill

872, Ivar, King of the Northmen of all Ireland and Britain , ended his life." He had conquered Mercia and East Anglia. He had captured the major stronghold of the kingdom of Strathclyde, Dumbarton. Laden with loot and seemingly invincible, he settled in Dublin and died there peacefully two years later. The pious chroniclers report that he "slept in Christ." Thus it may be that he had the best of both worlds.

Winston Churchill

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

Winston Churchill

There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

Winston Churchill

Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it

Winston Churchill

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.

Winston Churchill

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

Winston Churchill

We are with Europe but not of it. We are linked, not combined. We are interested and associated, not absorbed. And should European statesmen address us in the words that were used of old - Shall I speak for thee to the King or the Captain of the Host? - we should reply with the Shunamite woman: "Nay sir, for we dwell among our own people".

William Law

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

William J. H. Boetcker

Your greatness is measured by your kindness.

Virginia Woolf

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.

Vinnie Jones

There are a few YouTube clips of me singing at The King's Head in Santa Monica, so you can see how bad I am.

Woodrow Wilson

Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

Woodrow Wilson

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

Saint Augustine

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

Saint Augustine

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Yanni

The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.

Xosha Roquemore

Love is support, kindness, and warmth. That's all I have so far; I'm still figuring it out.

Wiz Khalifa

It’s funny how all the fussing and fighting turns into us f-king and flying.