Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brooke Elliott

I crocheted a blanket larger than a king-size bed. I just kept going.

Brother Lawrence

We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.

Brian Williams

With Kindness 1+1 always equals more than 2

Edmund Burke

To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.

Edmund Burke

Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.

Edmund Burke

Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.

Edmund Burke

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

Edmund Burke

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

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.

Ann Widdecombe

I was walking across King's Cross station when a drunken Irishman came stumbling up and flung his arms around me. He wanted to thank me for the peace process in Northern Ireland.

Andy Richter

I was prom king. Which is actually saying I was the sixth most popular, because the five who were on homecoming were automatically disqualified from prom, so of course I have to look at it that way.

Albert Schweitzer

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Albert Brooks

I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that I've always done 'less is more.'

Albert Camus

The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

Albert Camus

Travel breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Stripped of our props, deprived of our masks, we are completely on the surface of ourselves.

Amelia Earhart

The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

Amelia Earhart

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

Annie Besant

As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole earth, maketh the clouds his chariot, and reigns above the waterfloods as a king.

Annie Lennox

I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

When I commit to a role, I always tell myself that role is king. That's the Bible. If I start to judge my character, than it's going to influence my performance, and I don't want that. I want to find the truth in the character.

Cullen Hightower

One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.

Constance Baker Motley

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

Constance Baker Motley

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

Constance Baker Motley

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.

Conor Oberst

Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet.

Conor Oberst

I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured.'

Clarence Darrow

The consideration and kindness shown by unfortunates to each other are surprising to those who have no experience with this class of men. Often to find real sympathy you must go to those who know what misery means.

Clarence Darrow

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

Danny Elfman

I took part of Alan Silvestri's theme on the original [movie], which I really liked, and I pulled it into it new theme, which became kind of a hybrid. I really enjoyed that.

Dan Burton

We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!

David Foster Wallace

There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.