Kings Quotes · Page 61

More men would be treated like kings if they would only treat their wives like queens instead of servants.

— Randall Wright

I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music!

— Homer

“Lions are neither predators nor killers. They just go for hunting like kings; because they are the kings!”

— Munia Khan

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.

— John Selden

I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.

— Petra Haden

Can it be believed that the democracy, which has overthrown the feudal system and vanquished kings, will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

— Heraclitus

King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.

— Robin Hobb

You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is…

— Chuck Palahniuk

What I see is tellin me this world's gone crazy, but, What is real says God's still on His throne, What I…

— Steven Curtis Chapman

There are two kinds of men. There are men who are f**king misogynist pigs and then there are men who really love…

— Adam Levine

I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve -…

— Barack Obama

From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high…

— Woodrow Wilson

I'd like to be remembered not only for my body of work but also for specific novels. Ideally, I want to be…

— Nicholas Sparks

He looked at their shabby clothes in puzzlement. “We were traveling anonymously for safety—” explained the magus. “But surely—” “—and then we…

— Megan Whalen Turner

Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to…

— Thomas Carlyle

Jesus and Paul were serious dudes. They had teeth missing. Jesus was a carpenter, Paul was in prison. These guys didn’t eat…

— Mark Driscoll

Right,' Thomas said. 'Where are we headed?' 'To where they treat me like royalty,' I said. 'We're going to Burger King?' I…

— Jim Butcher

I could turn around as Wyatt Walker said to me about, not you personally, but about the whole Black Muslim movement. That…

— Malcolm X

I am reminded of the old court jester who was supposed to entertain his king with interesting stories and antics. He looked…

— Harold B. Lee

I got a call from a mutual friend of ours, Charles King, who's also the executive producer. [Steven Caple Jr and I]…

— Erykah Badu

'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's isle, and makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile... 'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er…

— Joseph Addison

But it is evident, that these bursts of universal distress are more dreaded than felt; thousands and ten thousands flourish in youth,…

— Samuel Johnson

I knew I had him in the first round. Almighty God was with me. I want everyone to bear witness, I am…

— Muhammad Ali

I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell them to…

— Alexis Arguello

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

— Frederick the Great

For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

— Victor Hugo

And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

— John Milton

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs…

— Jakob Dylan

As a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on…

— Yasmin Mogahed

All kings and queens are not born of royal bloodlines. Some become royal because of what they do once they realize who…

— Pharrell Williams

I am not sure I trust you." "You can trust me with your life, My King." "But not with my wine, obviously.…

— Megan Whalen Turner

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

— Wynton Marsalis

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

— Dalai Lama

From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's…

— Alexander Pope

Manchester United is still in my heart. Disappointed they didn't win the title but they are still the kings of Premier League.

— Cristiano Ronaldo

“So I take my lover, my king, and I put him in a pedestal and I cut him down. A man, like…

— Alaya Dawn Johnson

I envy no man's nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My…

— George Herbert

Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the…

— Frederick Busch

I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.

— Calvin Coolidge