Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

Francis Bacon

That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

Francis Bacon

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Sometimes you just match up well with a team. Look at Utah. They've kind of got our number.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

I've got all kinds of trinkets around here from her.

I've got all kinds of stuff, but I don't use them, ... They just get in the way.

I'm kind of skeptical of that. They may not have the restriction, but it remains to be seen how many under-.500 teams start to show up in the tournament.

Bronson Arroyo

I'm pretty much over it now. I'm kind of getting into the swing of things.

Erykah Badu

I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.

Florence King

America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an American than his parents. Americans regard children as what Mr. Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs called betters. Aping their betters, American adults do their best to turn themselves into children. Puerility exercises droit de seigneur everywhere.

Florence Welch

Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don’t know… It’s like some kind of euphoria, that love can’t bring to you.

Flannery O'Connor

Kindness and patience were always called for ...

Fernando Torres

At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart.

Fiona Apple

When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right

Henry Louis Gates

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

Henry Louis Gates

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.

Henry Louis Gates

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.

Henry Miller

Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

Henry Miller

We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

Henri Bergson

Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

Henri Frederic Amiel

There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

Henri Frederic Amiel

It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation -- to force the esteem of others -- seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.

Helen Keller

Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.

Cat Stevens

Everything made so much sense. This is the beauty of the Qur'an; it asks you to reflect and reason....When I read the Qur'an further, it talked about prayer, kindness and charity. I was not a Muslim yet, but I felt the o­nly answer for me was the Qur'an and God had sent it to me.

Cassandra Clare

Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what they do in this kind of… situation.

George Eliot

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

George Eliot

He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.

George Eliot

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.