Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haruki Murakami

At my core, there is nothing. Neither is it parched wastelands. At my core, there is love. I'll go on loving that ten-year-old boy named Tengo forever --- his strength, his intelligence, his kindness. He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken.

Haruki Murakami

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

Haruki Murakami

I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.

Haruki Murakami

Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.

Haruki Murakami

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

Haruki Murakami

We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

Han Suyin

And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.

Gustavo Santaolalla

I have produced all kinds of music because I love all kinds of music.

Grantland Rice

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

Gordon Smith

From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

John Dryden

Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.

John Dryden

War is a trade of kings.

John Dryden

Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne.

John Dryden

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

John Dryden

War is the trade of kings.

John Dryden

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

John Dryden

Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.

John Dryden

The people have a right supreme To make their kings, for Kings are made for them. All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust, Which when resum'd, can be no longer just. Successionm for the general good design'd, In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind.

John Dryden

Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

John Lyly

The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.

John Locke

A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.

John Lewis

When I was 15 years old in the tenth grade, I heard Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at the time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change

John Lewis

We have come a long way in America because of Martin Luther King, Jr. He led a disciplined, nonviolent revolution under the rule of law, a revolution of values, a revolution of ideas. We've come a long way, but we still have a distance to go before all of our citizens embrace the idea of a truly interracial democracy, what I like to call the Beloved Community, a nation at peace with itself.

John Legend

I used read about Dr. King a lot as a kid. Independently, from being assigned it or being told by my parents or anything, I was just really excited about him. So I just started reading about him very young and was inspired by his legacy and looked to him as a role model.

John Legend

Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.

John Legend

I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

John Legend

Recently, John and I got to go to Selma and perform it on the same bridge that Martin Luther King walked over. Once a landmark of a divided nation, the spirit of this bridge now for all people regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or social status. This bridge was built on hope and welded with compassion. Common