Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cornel West

When you say that [Martin Luther] King was a prophet, you don't say that he predicted anything; you say that he bore witness. He left a committed life so that people would never forget the suffering of people that he was connected to. King was prophetic because he lived a committed life. Now he did critique society, saying you're going to go under if you don't treat your poor right. I mean, that is part of prophetic calling, but it's not predicting anything.

Cornel West

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

Colum McCann

He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.

Conan O'Brien

Today President Obama is in the Middle East. He met the new king of Saudi Arabia. Obama also met Saudi Arabia's first lady, the second lady, third lady, and fourth lady.

Dwight Yoakam

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

Dwight L. Moody

Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God's favor.

David Sanborn

I kinda always wanted to be a tenor player, but I'm a small guy, and tenor was just too big.

With that kind of range of possibilities, we're not going to try to pin down anything about where it's going.

When we throw up that kind of score they are all usually within two or three strokes of each other, which is great.

Jay Leno

When I worked with Willie Nelson, who is just about the nicest man I've ever worked with in my life, the sweetest, kindest man, I thought, 'If I'd have been gay, it would have saved me millions,'

We learned we can win in all different kinds of ways. We can get big leads or we can stick it out and come from behind.

Biz Stone

I'm still kinda old-school. We're twittering, and we're all twitterers. And we write tweets. The only thing I don't love is twits.

I wasn't really living anywhere... I was just kinda hanging out. I would live from week to week in places.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius.

When you have unanswered questions. Everyone's kind of unsettled.

William Ruckelshaus

There are all kinds of things we can do right now, and we ought to be taking those steps.

There are all kinds of products out there that many people just don't know exist.

There are all kinds of possibilities we're exploring. You might be seeing it showing up in Oracle products.

Jeff Daniels

There comes a point when the king comes down off the mountain,

We kind of don't know where to go from here.

Tina Arena

We kind of didn't really need the surprise in between promoting the record and doing all of that,

Bobby Johnson

We're not proclaiming ourselves king of the road or anything.

Paul Simon

Big box just wasn't our strength. We are a men's and boy's specialty store focused on providing high quality clothing with custom tailoring. Our customer is king. When we had seven stores, communication between the stores and with our customers became more disconnected. We started to lose that great family 'camaraderie' that is essentially the key to our success.

Peter S. Beagle

Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts...

Ram Dass

The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion relieves the suffering that comes from separateness. The suffering that comes from separateness is relieved only when you are fully present with another person, not when you are separately present.

Frank Thomas

We don't need these kinds of distractions, and we won't have these kinds of distractions.

Jason Brown

We, as a team, didn't think he meant anything by it. He's not that kind of person. I personally wasn't offended. I think people saw today how sincere he was and he didn't mean anything by it.

We can treat our patients like kings and queens.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Kindness is our religion.

William Shakespeare

O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.

William Shakespeare

LEONATO Neighbours, you are tedious. DOGBERRY It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship.

William Shakespeare

O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, (135) Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: (140) So excellent a king; that was, to this,

William Shakespeare

For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings...