Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin Hobb

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

Robert Walpole

I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.

Robert W. Service

Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.

Robert Rodriguez

I kind of like working fast.

Rob Reiner

I love thrillers. I've never made them, but I would say a really good thriller is my favorite kind of a movie. If I can get a really great thriller, you know.

Rob Sheffield

...some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness.

Rob Zombie

I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey

Richard Petty

I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.

Richard O'Brien

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

Richard Paul Evans

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

Robert Pattinson

After the first one [Twilight ], people started referring to it as a franchise, but a franchise is a Burger King or a Subway. It's not a movie. The people who start to say it are generally the people who are making money off of it. They love it when something becomes a franchise. But, as an actor, I think it's scary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.

Robert E. Howard

There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the palace becomes drab. The gems in the diadem and upon the fingers of the women sparkle drearily like the ice of white seas; the speech of men is as the empty rattle of a jester's bell and the feel comes of things unreal; even the sun is copper in the sky and the breath of the green ocean is no longer fresh.

Robert E. Howard

A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.

Walt Disney

Why would I want to be president? I'm the king of Disneyland.

Walt Disney

Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?

Washington Irving

By a kind of fashionable discipline, the eye is taught to brighten, the lip to smile, and the whole countenance to emanate with the semblance of friendly welcome, while the bosom is unwarmed by a single spark of genuine kindness and good-will.

Walter Lang

Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.

Walter Lippmann

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

Voltaire

Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

Voltaire

Friends should be preferred to kings.

Voltaire

He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.

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.