Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Pike

Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.

Albert Pike

Work only can keep even kings respectable.

Albert Einstein

Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was full of kindness toward everybody and everything. Never did he give the impression of domineering, always of serving and helping. He was extremely conscientious, without allowing anything to assume undue importance; a subtle humor guarded him, which was reflected in his eyes and in his smile.

Albert Einstein

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

We were kind of relieved to get him out of here.

We were all kind of looking at each other, wondering what we had to do.

We'll see if he's one of those kind of players.

We'll see a lot of all kinds of deals,

Abigail Adams

A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

A. P. Herbert

The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.

A. J. P. Taylor

George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.

Saul Williams

The MC that we love are usually the ones that we consider be kinda heartless, like 50 Cent. That's pretty much the prowess and power of an MC. That's what sells.

Abbas Kiarostami

I thought that I had been asked every kind of question possible.

Aeschylus

Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind.

Adrienne Rich

What kind of beast would turn its life into words?

Agatha Christie

Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend Alison Wilde), are capable of doing a lot of harm because they lack - not kindness, they have kindness - but any real consideration for the way their actions may affect other people. She though always of what an action meant to her, never sparing a thought to what it might mean to somebody else.

Adrien Brody

A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.

Vivian Campbell

It's a lot more comfortable, I must say. Ummm, I didn't think I'd be playing with another band, I kinda thought I was through with that, but I make an exception because they're nice people.

Charles Kennedy

Political parties need to look at the different kinds of support that people may need, suited to their way of life, and provide cost-effective solutions.

Bruce Springsteen

Poor men wanna be rich, rich men wanna be kings,And a king aint satisfied till he rules everything.

Juan Mendez

My sense is there's the same kind of wariness. 'Let somebody else do it' is still very much in place.

One of the sad truths I have come to see is that for this kind of mass violence, you don't need monsters. Ordinary people will do just fine. This thing lives in all of us.

One of them went to sleep. Another did all kinds of dances.

Mr. Burke and King are down on the lower part of the creek. I am about to return to them, when we shall all probably come up this way.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Jane Austen

She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.

Jane Austen

I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.

Jane Austen

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

Jane Austen

Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.

James Woods

Here's what I believe a soul is - at least this, I believe it's at least this. I believe that every kindness that we create in our lives, if it came because we were affected by a person we loved and lost, that person lives through that kindness. That's what a soul is.

James Wolcott

A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.

James Wolcott

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.

James Wolcott

'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.