Kings Quotes · Page 51

There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.

— Sarah Moore Grimke

Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.

— Timothy Keller

Let's Face it, - Sinatra is a king. He's a very sharp operator, a keen record chief, and has a keen appreciation…

— Bing Crosby

On Friday a thief, on Sunday a King...the man Jesus Christ laid death in his grave!

— John Mark McMillan

I'm a big Kings of Leon fan. And there's probably some Britney Spears and Justin Bieber in my playlist too - which…

— Nick Viall

Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.

— Alvin Toffler

My music speaks of warriors. It speaks of women being kings and this sense of pride of being more, even though you…

— Dawn Richard

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

— Mose Allison

Louise de Keroualle, being a Frenchwoman from the French court, was feared by most Englishmen for how she might influence their king,…

— Susan Holloway Scott

Rejoice, the Lord is King! Your Lord and King adore; Mortals, give thanks and sing, And triumph evermore: Lift up your heart,…

— Charles Wesley

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land…

— Robert E. Howard

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. Once…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for…

— Anonymous

Now Nostradamus said that the king of Terror would appear September 1999. I believe Nostradamus knew his Bible and knew what the…

— Jack Van Impe

I’m just being myself. There is not an ounce of me that believes any of that crap that they say. We can’t…

— Zooey Deschanel

The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers,…

— Meir Kahane

Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To sow, that others may reap; to work and plant for those that are to occupy the earth when we are dead;…

— Albert Pike

He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Sallust

I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many…

— Corey Taylor

I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose…

— Christopher Columbus

Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers…

— Cyrano de Bergerac

The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries.…

— Fritz Haber

I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the…

— John James Ingalls

Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom.

— Jack LaLanne

I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King's son.

— Duke Ellington

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

— Vittorio Alfieri

Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men…

— Lin Yutang

If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]'s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn't have bin Ladens.

— Coretta Scott King

...even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.

— Christopher Paolini

The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

Meek and drake happen to be two of the young kings with strong voices and followings that give people hope I hope…

— Styles P

I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to…

— Angie Stone

Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no.

— William Shakespeare

Saying the lion is kind of the beasts says something about lions and also something about kings.

— Judith Lynne Hanna

Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.

— Tom Petty

They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers.

— Henry Noel Brailsford

Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow…

— Anonymous

Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]

— Ovid