Kings Quotes · Page 16

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

— Malcolm X

I don't think the world of football is so serious. It's important to have distance about things and about yourself. If we…

— Eric Cantona

Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency…

— Rumi

You can have a beard and do drag; you can be a woman and do drag. I've met faux queens. I've met…

— Manila Luzon

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who…

— Sallust

King of kings, that must be Elvis.

— Frank Zappa

Why should I fear? I am on a Royal Mission. I am in the service of the King of kings.

— Mary Slessor

FREEDOM CANNOT BE LICENSED, liberties cannot be regulated and rights cannot be granted. History teaches us that when the rights and liberties…

— Steve Kubby

If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain,…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

— Sinclair Lewis

Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times, but be faithful now and endure, pale lover.

— Rumi

“The phrase "the violent bear it away" fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of…

— Thomas Cahill

Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little…

— Alexander Pope

Time was our very first king. We all live our lives to the aggressive ticking of the clock. We don't question that…

— Lauren DeStefano

Usually, the best thing is when the band goes to the bar and gets the corner table, we sit there like kings,…

— Andy Summers

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys,…

— Gore Vidal

I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like."

— Cornel West

Fitzgerald never got rid of anything; the ghosts of his adolescence, the failures of his youth, the doubts of his maturity plagued…

— John Aldridge

The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.

— John Calvin

A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar

— Angela Carter

Mind you, it’s all bullshit with wine, isn’t it? It’s just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say.

— Ozzy Osbourne

Son--they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

— Kendrick Lamar

I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned.

— Curtis Jackson