Quotes about king

Gautama Buddha -

those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty those who know emptiness are aware.

Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Go on till you come to the end then stop.

Donna Brazile -

Maya Angelou was the voice of three generations. Her poetry spanned our journey, chronicled our hearts and documented our struggles as we moved from the orations of Martin Luther King to the presidency of Barack Obama.

Angela Davis -

Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.

Robert Greene - The 48 Laws of Power

Do not wait for a coronation the greatest emperors crown themselves.

Anne Rice -

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

Constance Baker Motley -

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

Orson Pratt -

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.

Karen DeCrow -

Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

Denis Diderot -

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Livy -

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

Bruno Tonioli -

When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.

Stephen King - The Running Man

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

George R.R. Martin - A Game of Thrones

You are your mother's trueborn son of Lannister.""Am I?" the dwarf replied, sardonic. "Do tell my lord father. My mother died birthing me, and he's never been sure.""I don't even know who my mother was," Jon said. "Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs."And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within

Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh -

It is not to compare Ali and Allah. It is to discuss between tyrant Yazeed and veracity of Hussainiat.

Mike Norton -

Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.Master yourself, and become king of the world around you. Let no odds, chastisement, exile, doubt, fear, or ANY mental virii pr

Thomas Traherne - Centuries Of Meditations

You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you. Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and Kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.Till your spirit filleth the whole world, and the stars are your jewels; till you are as

Stephen R. Lawhead - The Paradise War

I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man to that high place. For sovereignty is a sacred trust that may not be bartered or sold; still less may it be stolen or taken by force.

Criss Jami - Killosophy

When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves. The latter moves the nature of godliness from the King to our servant to a slave, a deduction into the realm of selfhood and then the lower, slavehood. It's a spiritual mathematics in that men who need God in his godhood are humble yet strong and spiritually ambitious while men who need a slave in their selfhood are ultimately paralyzed and will remain paralyzed.

Vera Nazarian - The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child.He was the Fourth to follow the Star.His gift was a secret.The rest of his journey is unknown.

J.R.R. Tolkien -

A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

God is King of kings.

Stuart Greaves -

‎If we do not know the King that comes to your bedroom for the sole purpose of taking out your trash, then you have yet to know Jesus as the Servant of All.

Stuart Greaves -

‎The only way Jesus can be our King is if we allow Him to be our Servant

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave him happiness and pride.

Kristen Britain - Blackveil

Do whatever you must, Karigan," he told her, his voice so quiet it would not carry, "to come back. You must come back. To me." ~King Zachary

George R.R. Martin - A Clash of Kings

How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?" Jaime reached for the flagon to refill his cup. "So many vows...they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other.

Nirav Sanchaniya -

A Writer is Actor, Creator, Director & Producer Of HIS Life. Ask ME anything.

Stephen King - It

For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.

Thomas Aquinas - On Kingship to the King of Cyprus

Yet through virtuous living man is further ordained to a higher end, which consists in the enjoyment of God, as we have said above. Consequently, since society must have the same end as the individual man, it is not the ultimate end of an assembled multitude to live virtuously, but through virtuous living to attain to the possession of God.

Richard Bachman - Rage

Mr. Grace sounded like a very small child, helpless, hopeless. I had made him fuck himself with his own big tool, like one of those weird experiences you read about in the Penthouse Forum. I had taken off his witch doctor's mask and made him human. But I didn't hold it against him. To err is only human, but it's divine to forgive. I believe that sincerely.

LaNina King -

Simply blessed.

Pazaria Smith -

If you find a FEAR predator on your tail, STOP running, turn and face it, with BOLDNESS and declare,"God has not given me the spirit of FEAR! but of power, and of love and of a sound mind. [2 Timothy 1:7]Take your best shot Devil! then, march on with boldness, confidence, power and strength, as a soldier in the King's army!

Gerald Morris - The Legend of the King

No one would speak, so Terence took a deep breath, let it out slowly, and said, "My liege?""Yes, Terence?""Twenty years ago I decided I would die for you. I may not be able to do that tomorrow, but if I can't, I can at least die beside you.

Grace Willows -

. She was beautiful, and her temperament seemed much better than his first wife did. Arman stopped in the middle of the Windsor knot on his tie. Who was he trying to kid, he thought. An enraged rabid pit bull in heat would have had a better temperament then his first wife.

Israelmore Ayivor - 101 Keys To Everyday Passion

If you want to miss your crown, follow the crowd. If you want to wear the crown, go alone and be yourself.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Faith is the flame that eliminates fear, and faith is the emperor of dreams.

Jacob M. Held - Stephen King and Philosophy

great literature is literature that speaks to deep, fundamental human truths and experience in a way that is relatable to the reader and that may provoke engagement or facilitate insight into these truths and experiences. If these truths and experiences are about breaches of the normal, then surely horror has a place in literature, and in facts may proffer deep engagement with the most profound aspects of our existence. Sometimes only horror can say what needs to be said.

C. JoyBell C. -

I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his destiny to sit on a throne but in his blood he was a king. I also knew a man who was the king of a small kingdom, it was very small and his throne very humble but he and his people were all brave and worthy conquerors. And I knew a man who sat on a magnificent throne of a big and majestic kingdom, but he was not a king at all, he was only a cowardly steward. If you are the king of a great kingdom

Sunday Adelaja -

To submit to a dominion is to pursue relationship with the King of that domain

Michael Grant - Plague

What’s Albert going to do?” a boy named Jim demanded. “Where’s Albert?”Albert stepped from an inconspicuous position off to one side. He mounted the steps, moving carefully still, not entirely well even now.He carefully chose a position equidistant between Caine and Sam.“What should we do, Albert?” a voice asked plaintively.Albert didn’t look out at the crowd except for a quick glance up, like he was just making sure he was pointed in the right direction. He spoke in a quiet, reasonable monotone

Michael Bassey Johnson -

God is the only book that can never be touched, open and seen.

Fritz Haber -

The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are not the only kings in science. He also is a king who guides the spirit of his contemporaries by knowledge and creative work, by teaching and research in the field of applied science, and who conquers for science provinces which have only been raided by craftsmen.

Criss Jami -

Worldly religion is that which replaces Faith with mere wishful thinking. One must not make the common mistake of putting his faith in all the things he thinks God ought to bless him with; he should instead keep his faith planted in God Himself. Present to Him his needs and wants like a child to his Father, but have faith only in His wisdom and goodness like a servant to his King. God must always be one's Everything before He is one's token to everything.

M.J. Abraham -

I love the way he says my name. With the elegance and utmost respect of a King, just before he bows to his Queen.

Stephen King - Carrie

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

George R.R. Martin -

Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All dwarfs are bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.

Israelmore Ayivor -

On Jesus' rock, my life abounds; all other floors are slippery grounds. His love for me, is mercy band; any other love is sinking sand.

Oksana Rus -

Be calm...calm as a calm lagoon, then you will look beautiful as a beautiful calm lagoon crowned by the Moon and sheltered by the brilliance of the stars reclaiming your royalty of regal life...

Laiah Gifty Akita -

The Great King, Jesus Christ.

Neymat Khan -

Enough !! of the lion ruling the wild territory, time to vote the panther gentlemen.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them like a prince or a princess.

George R.R. Martin - A Dance with Dragons

Man wants to be the king o’ the rabbits, he best wear a pair o’ floppy ears.

Jason Medina - No Hope for the Hopeless at Kings Park

By the time she awoke she couldn’t even remember if she had a dream or a nightmare. There had only been a deathlike peace.

Danilo Vukovljak -

My father told me "Son, there are only two kinds people that can do whatever they want in life. Kings and fools.". So I decided to be a King.

Danilo Vukovljak -

My father told me once "Son, there are only two kinds people that can do whatever they want in life. Kings and fools.". So I decided to be a King.

Blaise Pascal - Pensées

Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare it is the pleasure even of kings.

Stephen King - The Running Man

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands

W.G. Pogson Smith - Leviathan

Nature indeed plants the seeds of religion--fear and ignorance kingcraft and priestcraft water and tend it.

Grace Willows -

We cannot see love yet its nurturing warmth is the essence of our being and sorrow can touch our very soul. For remorse is like a ripple on the ocean, once given it remains only in the heart of the receiver.Believe in Yourself by Grace Willows

Kierra C.T. Banks -

I'm a queen with or without a king. Chasing anything is beneath me. Until you're ready to put away childish things and be my man, my king, someone I can trust to shepard my soul to the Almighty I have to decline being your wife. I love you with all my heart and soul, but my salvation, life, health, and legacy has to come first now.

Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies

You know I'm not a man with whom you can have inconsequential conversations. I cannot split myself into two, one your friend and the other the king's servant.

Sunday Adelaja -

If the people reveal God , He will change the heart of the king of that country

Sunday Adelaja -

Your country can be a footstool for God, if he finds people in all spheres of life who will prepare their bodies for the Great King

Joe Abercrombie - The Heroes

Remember, though, that you are the king's observer, not the king's champion.

Krishna Udayasankar - Three

What does it matter who is ruler of a realm that no longer exists?

Charles-Auguste de Beriot -

The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for the violin the glory of being called the king of instruments

Jean Baudrillard -

But this aura of an artificial menace was still necessary to conceal that they [Presidents] were no longer anything but the mannequins of power. Formerly, the king (also the god) had to die, therein lay his power. Today, he is miserably forced to feign death, in order to preserve the blessing of power. But it is lost.

Charles de Leusse -

The king who has the broad bean does not have one whole wafer. (Le roi qui a la fève - N'a la galette entière.)

Tomichan Matheikal - The Nomad Learns Morality

Any fool with ambition and heartlessness can be a ruler.

Mustafa Said -

It is much better to live in poverty and graduate to the middle class, than it is to live as a king and be demoted to the middle class.

Chris Martin - See You Soon

We don't tell anyone the darker side of things. We've been through all the breakups and addictions and all that. But we have a chemistry that no one else in the world has. So we don't mess with it." - Chris Martin

Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist

It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge. So it’s not surprising that kings would talk to shepherds.

Stephen King - Duma Key

Pain is the biggest power of love." That's what Wireman says.

Criss Jami - Venus in Arms

I'm a lion in a strange land.

Criss Jami - Venus in Arms

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

Pepin the Short -

Who ought to be the king of france-the person who has the title, or the man who has the power?

Elizabeth D. Marie - Chasing Cinders

It was not a comfortable Throne, this seat made of stone. But power was not supposed to be comfortable.

Ragnar Lothbrok -

Power is dangerous. It corrupts the best and attracts the worst. Power is only given to those who are prepared to lower themselves to pick it up.

George R.R. Martin - A Dance with Dragons

There is power in a King's blood.

George R.R. Martin - A Storm of Swords

One King means peace.

Vikrmn - Guru with Guitar

Life as a defeated warrior with dignity is lot better than the king ruling without it.

J.P.Ashman -

Great! I’m addressing the King of Altoln…about who knows what, but I’m at the centre of it and everyone’s looking at me now, oh for all the gods’ sake Falchion, swallow it down and say something damn you.

Cody Edward Lee Miller -

The strength of a kingdom comes from its King,The strength of a King comes from his Queen.

J.A. ANUM -

Do you see how the sky holds the sun?In a powerful but effortless way that shows off her beauty and strength?That's how a King holds his Queen.

Sunday Adelaja -

If you serve the king of kings, the rest will serve you, money, success, prosperity, etc

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

A King and Queen cannot support a crown with eyes looking down. Their universe expands as far as you can see.

William Stafford -

They miss the whisper that runsany day in your mind,"Who are you really, wanderer?"--and the answer you have to giveno matter how dark and coldthe world around you is:"Maybe I'm a king.

Margaret Lovett - The Great and Terrible Quest

Silver hidden in the gold,Young man hidden in the old,Laughing lord with weeping eyes,Bring king and ring before sunrise! -Hilarion, The Great and Terrible Quest

C.S. Lewis - The Last Battle

Do you think I care if Aslan dooms me to death?” said the King. “That would be nothing, nothing at all. Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun.

Stephen King - It

Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!

William Shakespeare - Prince of Denmark

ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king.HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing -GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord?HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!

Stephen King - The Gunslinger

The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go

Deyth Banger -

Each character created by Stephen King is a proffesor... a guy full of knowledge.

Sunday Adelaja -

A king and his domain results in a kingdom

Sunday Adelaja -

Kingdom involves a king and his influence over a domain

C.S. Pacat - Captive Prince

A kingdom, or this?

Johann Joachim Becher -

The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king.

Deyth Banger -

Two can keep secret if the one is dead. (A Good Marriage by Stephen King)