Famous Quotes & Sayings

Milton Friedman

Plato assumes somehow that government is a way in which you put unselfish and ungreedy men in charge of selfish and greedy men. But government is an institution whereby the people who have the greatest drive to get power over their fellow men, get in a position of controlling them. Look at the record of government. Where are these philosopher kings that Plato supposedly was trying to develop?

Mike Epps

I get a lot of people trying to take advantage of me because of my kindness. I'm either real nice to you, or I want to cut your head off. There's no in between with me.

Nathan East

For me, love is an enhanced state of kindness, compassion, service, respect, and humility, an emotion I feel we are all here to give and to receive.

Nathan Fillion

Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

Nancy Mitford

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

Ken Salazar

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

Keith Carradine

Walter [Hill] basically brought me into that ["Wild Bill Hickok"], and it was one of the great experiences. It was extraordinary stuff. He wrote this kind of American Shakespeare. But I played my part for four episodes, and the rest is history!

Keira Knightley

They always pencil in my boobs. I was only angry when they were really droopy... For King Arthur, for a poster, they gave me these really strange droopy tits. I thought, well if you're going to make me fantasy breasts, at least make perky breasts.

Kate DiCamillo

When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.

Kate DiCamillo

He was weeping. Although 'weeping' really is to small a word for the activity the kind had undertaken. Tears were cascading from his eyes. A small puddle had formed at his feet. I am not exaggerating. The king, it seemed, was intent on crying himself a river.

Kate DiCamillo

The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.

Karen White

Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.

Julian Casablancas

Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).

Julian Baggini

Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.

Julian Assange

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

Ken Harrelson

In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king.

Katie Couric

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.

Krista Tippett

[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.

Krista Tippett

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

Kim Harrison

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.

Kim Harrison

You try getting through the Hollows traffic with a stoned redhead hanging out the window shouting, 'I'm king of the world!' ~Lee

Kim Harrison

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.

Kevin Pietersen

Chennai Super Kings will win the IPL. MS Dhoni's Clever Captaincy is the reason behind Chennai Super Kings’ success in #‎ IPL !

Kevin Nealon

It seems like all the sitcoms on now, the families are kind of dysfunctional.

He and the man, King Norman, had been friends for years. He (Marsh) often did yard work for him.

Ivan Illich

Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called underdeveloped, while those in which living has been transformed into a process of ordering from an all-encompassing store catalogue are called advanced.

Islom Karimov

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.

Ishmael Reed

What I can't understand why Blacks can't achieve royal status when it comes to forms that they have largely created? I mean there's a White King of Rock n' Roll, there's a White King of Jazz, how come we can never achieve titles of royalty in these fields we are supposed to prevail in? They held a so called Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the other night, where White judges credit people who resemble them with the invention of Rock and Roll. I didn't even see Blacks in the audience.

Imelda Marcos

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

Ike Turner

When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that their woman's gone. And how bad life is and all that. Why can't it be something happy with the blues? Why can't it have a hip-hop beat to which you can do the dances of today?

Idries Shah

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

Idries Shah

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

Gloria Steinem

People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so wrong. I don't think I've sacrificed one f-king thing.