Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. rosencrantz: I understand you not, my lord. hamlet: I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.

William Shakespeare

They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing;

William Shakespeare

Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!

William Shakespeare

To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.

William Shakespeare

If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.

William Shakespeare

King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in all his creatures works! Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high. Suffolk: No marvel, an it like your majesty, My lord protectors hawks do tower so well; They know their masters loves to be aloft, And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch. Gloucester: My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

William Shakespeare

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?

Matt Hasselbeck

We haven't been parading around town doing all kinds of things. We're here for one thing and that's to play football. We're not here to do all this other stuff.

Buck Showalter

We have not been kind to them, ... Between Whittleman and Danks and Teagarden, we have not been kind to the University of Texas. Maybe that's why Augie's here. Hey, maybe we'll sign Augie.

Haley Barbour

Those are the kinds of things that will be discussed,

Those are the kinds of things that we have theories about, but we really don't have data.

Those are the kinds of things people would have never thought would happen.

Those are the kinds of strides we've made.

Terry Jones

Those kinds of things I think will stay and get more sophisticated. I think it's going to be very tailored for the customer.

Those kinds of things are incremental improvements that really were pretty important.

Johnny Knoxville

Unfortunately, you know, it's been a while and he, you know, ... Kind of like oatmeal, you know?

Dogen

Do no harmful actions, do not become attached to the cycle of death and rebirth, show kindness, respect the old and have compassion for the young, do not have a heart that rejects or a heart that covets and have no worry or sadness in your heart. This is what is called enlightenment. Do not seek it elsewhere.

We pulled it out in the end, but it shouldn't have even got to that point with the kind of lead we had.

Our arson investigators have worked in all kinds of weather.

Ichiro Suzuki

Physically I'm fine. All I have to do is get my timing back, those kinds of things. Physically it's no problem at all.

It does kind of have shades of Soap Lake, doesn't it?

This one kind of got away from us.

We did all kinds of things to to take their minds off shooting.

John C. Reilly

It's kind of liberating to be able to bring your own ideas to things, but it's also a lot of pressure, it's like screenwriting on your feet.

John C. Maxwell

Become a coach, not a king. A coach brings out the best in others, helping them to reach deep down inside and discover their potential. A king only gives commands.

Hun Sen

The king is staying here, working here with us,

The kindness we've seen here -- we've never experienced that before,

James Thomas Fields

Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.

James Toney

Talk to Bob Arum, cos he's my man. Don King kiss my ass!

James T. Walsh

As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.

James Thurber

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

James Thurber

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

James Stockdale

Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots