Kings Quotes
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Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much to be feminine and not feminist. And then she is so gaga before so many men. She talks about men I know in France, men who were less than nothing, and she considers them kings, extraordinary people.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I think that I'll always remember the bust of Dr. [Martin Luther] King. I thought having an American here who represented rhat civic spirit that got me into this [president] office was useful.
Barack Obama
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What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
Lao Tzu
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You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws.
Hilary Mantel
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I love Dr. King, but violence might be necessary; Cause when you live on MLK and it gets very scary, You might have to pull your AK, send one to the cemetery.
Killer Mike
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Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'
Anthony Giddens
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If he's the king, I'm the prince.
Alex Riley
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Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.
William Barclay
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Bachchan has been in the film industry over 35 years and he is the real king. There are many who are around for 15-20 years and like to call themselves king. There is only one king and he is Amitabh Bachchan
Akshay Kumar
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Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens.
Ed Thigpen
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I'll do what I can to promote the greater good. If you can harm one person to save 1,000, I'm gonna do it every f**king time.
Sean Patrick Flanery
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One of the frustrations of someone like Thomas Cromwell is that, before they step into the light of history, and become extremely well documented, they are not known. A king might be well documented but not everyone.
Hilary Mantel
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Some men are born kings; and some are born statesmen. The two are seldom the same.
George Bernard Shaw
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I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.
W. S. Gilbert
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A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.
Plato
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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
William Morris
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'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'
William Makepeace Thackeray
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'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.
William Shakespeare
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...our progenitors, the kings of England, have before these times been lords of the English sea on every side...and it would very much grieve us if in this kind of defence our royal honour should be lost.
Edward III of England
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In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.
Farouk of Egypt
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The common law of chattels, that is to say, the law ultimately adopted by the King's courts for the regulation of disputes about the ownership and possession of goods, was, to be a substantial extent, a by-product of that new procedure which had been mainly introduced to perfect the feudal scheme of land law.
Edward Jenks
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A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
William Hazlitt
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The outsiders have become kings and queens of the castle. It is a whole lot easier to sit outside the tent and throw firecrackers inside; it is much, much harder to sit inside the tent and govern not only your enemies, but your close friends as well.
Hal Rothman
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All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.
Martin Luther