King Quotes
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Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.
Confucius
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He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I wanted to be a King who would found a New World, not in some misty country far across the seas, but right here, right now, at home.
Cressida Cowell
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I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows.
Emma Stone
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The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. Acting in eight different directions, he becomes, instead of the weakest piece, one of the most formidable units.
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
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King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."
Plutarch
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Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.
Robert De Niro
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E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king.
Blaise Pascal
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The only time I've played a real baddy was when I was Regan in 'King Lear.'
Ashley Jensen
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Inaugural speeches are supposed to be huge and stirring. Presidents haul our heroes onstage, from George Washington to Martin Luther King Jr. George W. Bush brought the Liberty Bell. They use history to make greatness and achievements seem like something you can just take down from the shelf.
John Dickerson
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There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else he cannot be obeyed. But I never said that a king, and every one of his persons, are the same substance.
Thomas Hobbes
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The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.
Jonathan Kozol
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
Sinclair Lewis
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The King of Abyssinia always dines alone.
Ernest Crawley
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Nothing is certain. Many ways lead to destruction. You will be tested beyond your capacity to endure. Should you survive the trials ahead, you will be a husband without a wife, a father without a son, a hero without a quest, and a king without a country. But take heart. Some must lose the way to find it. Some must be empty before they are full, weak before they are strong, and blind before they can see.
Brandon Mull
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In ancient Judaism the king of Israel was considered both Son of God and—astonishingly enough—even God.
Bart Ehrman
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How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Bion of Borysthenes
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My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.
Bernard of Clairvaux
