“His was a lonely, unorthodox conviction that war was man's ultimate failure.” — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically… — Ray Lewis Copy Share Image
Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things, — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
“The world is so full of a number of things, I ’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Ridley Pearson also plays bass guitar and sings with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of such successful authors as… — Otto Penzler Copy Share Image
If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I'm here to tell… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
This king governs without decapitation or corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances. Even in cases… — Faxian Copy Share Image
We talk a lot about Malcom X and Martin Luther King JR, but It's time to be like them, as strong as… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To sow, that others may reap; to work and plant for those that are to occupy the earth when we are dead;… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating… — Nichelle Nichols Copy Share Image
The inner throne of man is both what the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of Lucifer are after. And when this… — Eric Ludy Copy Share Image
The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital.… — Ezra Heywood Copy Share Image
I think he [King Edward] was a modernizer who was a new thinker. The things he intended to do - unify the… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image