Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garry Kasparov

I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.

Garry Kasparov

When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side

Garry Kasparov

When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method.

Francois Fenelon

When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.

Frank Carlucci

Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region.

Frank A. Clark

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

Frank A. Clark

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

Eknath Easwaran

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

John Conyers

My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.

John Crowe Ransom

Do not enforce the tired wolf Dragging his infected wound homeward To sit tonight with the warm children Naming the pretty kings of France.

John Bunyan

Beware of resting in the word of the kingdom, without the spirit and power of the kingdom of that gospel, for the gospel coming in word only saves nobody, for the kingdom of God or the gospel, where it comes to salvation, is not in word but in power.

Joan Baez

When I was 16, the guest speaker was King. And I was completely overwhelmed because I had been studying nonviolence, talking about it, reading about it, but here it was happening, here it was people boycotting the buses and people on the streets and taking risks, which I think was the key.

Joan Baez

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Louie Gohmert

Whether youre president or speaker, if youre wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. Thats what Martin Luther King had talked about: being judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. So some of us pounded away on some of the ridiculous policies of Pelosi - and lo and behold, over time, the public began to see.

Lou Reed

And no kinds of love are better than others

Lola Kirke

You perform the thing that you made, that's inside of you, and to subject that to any kind of scrutiny is terrifying. It's still terrifying to me.

Lloyd Alexander

King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath.

Lloyd Alexander

And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.

Lloyd Alexander

I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.

Lloyd Alexander

Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.

LL Cool J

It's hard being the king, but somebody's got to do it.

Lysander Spooner

The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much myths as our own. On general principles of law and reason, there are no such 'nations.' ... Our pretended treaties, then, being made with no legitimate or bona fide nations, or representatives of nations, and being made, on our part, by persons who have no legitimate authority to act for us, have intrinsically no more validity than a pretended treaty made by the Man in the Moon with the king of the Pleiades.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

Louis XIV

The final argument of kings

Louis XIV

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.

Louise Bogan

A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Character is the architect of the being.

Lou Brock

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive

John Gardner

When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.

John Gay

From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame.

John Foxe

Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own.