Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Frank

Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off.

Thomas Friedman

If we don't have a more serious energy policy, the difference between a good day and bad day for America from here on will hinge on how the 86-year-old king of Saudi Arabia manages...change.

Thomas Cahill

The phrase the violent bear it away fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of one of her novels. O'Connor's surname connects her to an Irish royal family descended from Conchobor (pronounced Connor), the prehistoric king of Ulster who was foster father to Cuchulainn and husband of the unwilling Derdriu. In the western world, the antiquity of Irish lineages is exceeded only by that of the Jews.

Victor Ortiz

I want to be one of the greats. I want to be the pound for pound king and I know what it takes to get there.

Victor Hugo

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

Victor Hugo

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

Greta Gerwig

I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from.

Gordon B. Hinckley

... the whole design of the gospel is to lead us onward and upward to greater achievement, even, eventually, to godhood. This great possibility was enunciated by the Prophet Joseph Smith in the King Follet sermon. It is this grand and incomparable concept: As God now is, man may become!

Gordon B. Hinckley

He whose birth we commemorate this season is more than the symbol of a holiday. He is the Son of God, the Creator of the earth, the Jehovah of the Old Testament, the fulfillment of the Law of Moses, the Redeemer of mankind, the King of Kings, the Prince of Peace.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart and mind. "Christmas means 'compassion and love' and, most of all 'forgiveness' How poor indeed would be our lives without the influence of His teachings and His matchless example. "He whose birth we commemorate this season is more than the symbol of a holiday. He is the Son of God, the Redeemer of mankind, the King of Kings, the Prince of Peace.

Giuseppe Zangara

I kill kings and presidents first, and next all capitalists.

Giuseppe Zangara

I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.

Herman Cain

Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.

Herman Cain

I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.

Herbert Spencer

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

Herman Melville

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.

Herman Melville

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

Henry David Thoreau

Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue the slaves of prejudice? What is it to be born free and equal, and not to live? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A born king is a very rare being.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

Jerry Falwell

I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left-wing associations.

Jeremy Grantham

The stock market is overpriced. Everything is overpriced. Junk is king.

Jean de La Fontaine

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.

Jeffrey Kluger

Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an era in which the supermarket was king, the farmer's market was, well, for farmers, and the word 'locavore' sounded vaguely like a mythical beast.

Jeffrey Toobin

The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.

Jeff Daniels

On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.

James Buchan

What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended Arab interests against the world. That, in the end, is more important than what they wear on their head.

James Cameron

I'm King Of The World!!!

James Cameron

I am king of the world!

James A. Michener

It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.

Jacqueline Carey

If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.

Christopher Hitchens

The whole reason for the success of Dr. King's civil-rights movement was that it was not a movement for itself. The civil-rights movement understood very clearly, and stated very beautifully, that it was a question of humanism, not a sectarian movement at all.

Gary Vaynerchuk

If content is King, context is God.