Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evelyn Glennie

Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.

Evelyn Underhill

The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.

Eugene Field

Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your every word spoken with love. Live as God would have you live, and others will be inspired to do the same.

Jack Morris

If I feel like King King, I'll throw like King King.

Jack Nicholson

Once you've been really 'bad' in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

Jack Nicholson

Everybody said I was good, but being known and not having a big film success is almost tougher than being completely new. It just kind of turned my life around and was definitely a highlight.

Jack Kerouac

Life is life, and kind is kind

Jack Kerouac

All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.

Jack Kerouac

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Jack Hanna

A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.

Jack Black

I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.

J. C. Watts

I was taught to respect everyone for the simple reason that we're all God's children. I was taught, in the words of Martin Luther King, to judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. And I was taught that character is simply doing what's right when nobody's looking.

J. C. Ryle

We are evidently no friends of Satan. Like the kings of this world, he wars not against his own subjects. The very fact that he assaults us should fill our minds with hope.

J. C. Ryle

It is easy to criticize and find fault with the conduct of kings, and write furious articles against them in newspapers, or make violent speeches about them on platforms. Any fool can rip and rend a costly garment, but not every man can cut out and make one. To expect perfection in kings, prime ministers, or rulers of any king, is senseless and unreasonable. We would exhibit more wisdom if we prayed for them more, and criticized less.

J. C. Ryle

Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.

J. C. Ryle

If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.

Conquer evil people by gentle kindness, and make zealous people wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion.

The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes his heart.

Isaac Watts

Joy to the world, the Lord is come / Let earth receive her King / Let every heart, prepare him room / And heaven and nature sing.

Isaac Newton

1. Fidelity & Allegiance sworn to ye King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by ye law of ye land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves, and ye King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those Oaths. 2. When, therefore, the obligation by the law to fidelity and allegiance ceases, that by the Oath also ceases...

Isaac Newton

In scripture we are told of some trusting in God and others trusting in idols, and that God is our refuge, our strength, our defense. In this sense God is the rock of his people, and false Gods are called the rock of those that trust in them, Deut. xxxii. 4, 15, 18, 30, 31, 37. In the same sense the Gods of the King who shall do according to his will are called Mahuzzims, munitions, fortresses, protectors, guardians, or defenders.

Isaac Newton

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Jim Rash

Honestly, it's terrible, but I don't know if I've ever really read a Stephen King novel.

Michael Brown

His kindness is something I will always remember.

James Thomson

But yonder comes the powerful king of day,/ Rejoicing in the east.

Hannah More

A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care!

Hannah More

A small unkindness is a great offence.

Guy Spier

From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself - people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world.

Guy Pearce

You do feel kind of nervous about any film you take on.

Glenn Greenwald

Only In America can a renowned and devoted terrorism supporter like Peter King be the arbiter of national security and treason.

Gerry Cooney

The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.

Gerry Cooney

If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one.