King Quotes
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Unless you had developed a certain independence of value, a certain independent system of value, a system of values that was independent from this middle-class drive for recognition. This has been my explanation of part of [Martin Luther King] general role. So, he accepted this without too much resistance. In fact, none that I could ever see, and at certain points I was close enough to see something.
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Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man.
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Suddenly Faramir stirred, and he opened his eyes, and he looked on Aragorn who bent over him; and a light of knowledge and love was kindled in his eyes, and he spoke softly. 'My lord, you called me. I come. What does the king command?
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I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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I think Dr. King, if he were alive today, he wouldn't disrespect the flag or the anthem; he would use his words and his voice to send a message for positive change.
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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.
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I did a lot of theatre when I started out. It was the Lyceum, the Citz, the Tron and the Traverse. I came to London and did the Royal Court, the National, 'King Lear' at the Manchester Royal Exchange. I did little bits of comedy, like 'Rab C Nesbitt,' but I wasn't predominantly about comedy.
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The only time I've played a real baddy was when I was Regan in 'King Lear.'
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“Better to be a man and respected like a king, than to be a king respected by no man”
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When the king gets depressed, he doesn't call for his wife. He doesn't call for the cook. He calls for the court jester.
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Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.
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My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.
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Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
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With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs.
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I owe no duty to the forum, the election ground or the senate; I am ... no barking pleader, no judge, no soldier, no king; I have withdrawn from the populace. My only business is with myself. I have no care save not to care. The better life you would more enjoy in seclusion than in publicity. But you will decry me as indolent. ... None is born for another, being destined to die for himself.
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When human glory rises high As human glory can; When though the king is truly great, Still greater is the man.
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In the Laws of Cnut, it was formally laid down that no one is to bother the King with his complaints, so long as he can get Justice in the Hundred.
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To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves.
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Story is king. Everything else is a slave to the story.
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In times of crisis, cash is king.
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''Don't you see what my power does for me? I could sit in on the councils of kings and dictators. It makes me king. It makes me—Nemesis.''
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Beauty is a King that needs to be obeyed.
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A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
