Best Kings Quotes
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson…
— Jack Canfield
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
— Thomas Carlyle
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'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'
— Lewis Carroll
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The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not…
— Chanakya
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I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's…
— Kyle Chandler
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I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.
— Madonna Ciccone
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I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to…
— Eric Clapton
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I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.
— John Henrik Clarke
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One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career…
— Hillary Clinton
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My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.
— Tori Amos
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My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she…
— Tori Amos
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Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers,…
— Joan of Arc
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It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn…
— Joan of Arc
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King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven;…
— Joan of Arc
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The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings in speaking of…
— Laozi
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The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.
— Honore de Balzac
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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War is the trade of kings.
— John Dryden
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You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil…
— Horatio Nelson
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War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
— William Cowper
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I should like a great lake of ale, for the King of Kings. I should like the family of heaven to be drinking it through…
— Brigit of Kildare
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So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind…
— Laurence Sterne
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