Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Pope

The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

Alexander Pope

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies; so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.

The silence of the people is a warning for the king

And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.

Coretta Scott King was was one of the country's most influential women.

There is strong support for making Martin Luther King Day a state holiday,

John Keats

They shall be accounted poet kings / Who simply tell the most heart-easing things.

John Gray

They started out like the prom king and queen. Hewas the sexiest man, and she the sexiest woman.

It's not quite as valuable as if it had been written in 1929, when Martin Luther King was born.

Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.

Amy Walter

It's surprising because it comes after King not only raised his profile nationally but in the New York market, which is always tough even for an incumbent.

So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land.

Brock runs the show. He's the big king for us in the back. He's our quarterback.

Robert Kiyosaki

So where in the old economy, content was king, in the new economy, context is king.

Anna Jameson

A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.

The king reigns but does not govern.

There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. ... There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people. Because today, if you're appointed by the king, they don't feel that they're responsible for the people. If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work — because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

Theodore Tilton

What is wealth?" the king would say, "Even this shall pass away

With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs.

Cassandra Clare

Then I lost him for a brief period of time, and by the time I caught up with him, he had wandered into Hyde Park, waded into the Serpetine, spread his arms wide, and was shouting, 'Ducks, embrace me as your king!

Carmen Ejogo

Coretta Scott King was all about her pearl earrings. At one point, I'm wearing pearl earrings the size of golf balls. They're enormous! She was bold-she knew that she was the Jackie Kennedy of her community.

Carly Schroeder

You really can't do a remake. I mean, 'King Kong' needed its turn to be remade. It needed an update. But the 'Bad News Bears,' or 'The Shaggy D.A.,' those are classic movies. I think they did a good job of remaking them, but it's just not the same thing. Nobody can top Tatum O'Neal. It just isn't the same.

Moby

Doing interviews and touring are two ways that I can try to bring my music to people. It can be tiring, but it's better than working at Burger King.

Mika

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.

Kenneth Williams

I didn't like the King's Cross world: it was grimy and dirty. I always envisioned myself in much more romantic and grand surroundings. I never really thought that I belonged to the working-class area at all.

Karl Marx

Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.

Jules Shear

A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.

Marvin J. Ashton

We ... tend to evaluate others on the basis of physical, outward appearance: their "good looks," their social status, their family pedigrees, their degrees, or their economic situations. The Lord, however, has a different standard by which he measures a person. When it came time to choose a king to replace King Saul, the Lord gave this criteria to his prophet Samuel: "Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; ... for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart."

Mark Twain

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

Mark Twain

Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

Nicholas Sparks

I'd like to be remembered not only for my body of work but also for specific novels. Ideally, I want to be remembered in the same way as Stephen King, who defined and exemplified excellence in the horror genre in the late 20th and early 21st century.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level.