Famous Quotes & Sayings

Swami Vivekananda

The world is a demon. It is a kingdom of which the puny ego is king. Put it away and stand firm.

Robert A. Heinlein

From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.

Robert A. Heinlein

At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate. In this age the myth is 'the will of the people' ... but the problem changes only superficially.

Tim McGraw

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.

Tim McGraw

I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.

Tilda Swinton

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

Thomas Traherne

It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours? Do you not covet all? Do you not long to have it; to enjoy it; to overcome it? To what end do men gather riches, but to multiply more? Do they not like Pyrrhus the King of Epire, add house to house and lands to lands, that they may get it all?

Thomas Traherne

Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God as misers do in gold, and kings in scepters, you can never enjoy the world.

Thomas Szasz

Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.

Thomas Jefferson

we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of your kindness in the two branches of Botany and Natural history to which we wish him particularly to apply.

Steven Saylor

When I was a boy, my grandfather taught me the list of kings: Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius the Elder, Servius Tullius. Tarquinius the Proud was to be the last, the very last, cast out and replaced forever by something called a republic. A mockery! A mistake! An experiment that failed! Today is the republic’s final day. Tomorrow, men will shout in the Forum, ‘All hail King Coriolanus!

Steven Seagal

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

Regina King

I've always been selective about materials I choose anyways. The incoming calls haven't been projects that I necessarily want to do. Now I can always be called "Emmy winner Regina King."

Reggie Watts

I'm just kind of interested in focusing on what I'm interested in and just kind of solidifying it, or at least experimenting, or actualizing some of the experiments that I've had in my head for years, either filmicly or with audio.

Red Buttons

King Solomon, who said to his thousand wives, Who doesn't have a headache tonight? Never got a dinner!

Tom Shadyac

I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.

Tom Hollander

I'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded, 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of person; that's not me.

Tom Hooper

In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.

Tommy Cooper

So a man jumps into a taxi and says "King Arthur's close" and the taxi driver says, "don't worry we'll lose him at the next lights".

Thomas Cahill

The phrase the violent bear it away fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of one of her novels. O'Connor's surname connects her to an Irish royal family descended from Conchobor (pronounced Connor), the prehistoric king of Ulster who was foster father to Cuchulainn and husband of the unwilling Derdriu. In the western world, the antiquity of Irish lineages is exceeded only by that of the Jews.

Thomas Chalmers

Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.

Victor Ortiz

I want to be one of the greats. I want to be the pound for pound king and I know what it takes to get there.

Victor Hugo

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

Victor Hugo

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

Victor Hugo

The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

Victor Hugo

Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

Victor Hugo

For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

Victor Hugo

The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

Vernon Howard

Who asks a king for a penny?

Vernon Howard

Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.

Veronica Roth

We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness.

Robert Foster Bennett

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.

Robert Fripp

Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.