King Quotes
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I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
Phaedrus -
''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.''
Lester Cole
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In times of crisis, cash is king.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego -
In ancient Judaism the king of Israel was considered both Son of God and—astonishingly enough—even God.
Bart Ehrman -
We as young men need just one of our peers to stand up and trust his God completely and without reserve. We need just one who will start climbing the rugged mountain cliffs in the direction of his King. We need just one to hear the call of the wild, to charge the fields of Bannockburn and fight for something that really matters. I appeal to you, as a young man, to consider that throughout history, it has often been when one young man stood up to be counted that the course of a nation was forever altered.
Eric Ludy -
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?
J. R. R. Tolkien -
1500 metre. I am the king.
Sun Yang -
When human glory rises high As human glory can; When though the king is truly great, Still greater is the man.
Edward Joseph Young
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Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.
Eugene Field -
Bridge is the king of all card games.
Bill Gates -
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.
Edward Jenks -
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.
Richard Simmons -
The King of Abyssinia always dines alone.
Ernest Crawley -
The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield subjection to him. From whence it follows that as soon as the prince sets himself above the law, he loses the king in the tyrant. He does, to all intents and purposes, un-king himself.
Jonathan Mayhew
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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.
Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud -
If I can't even protect my captain's dream, then whatever ambition I have is nothing but talk! Luffy must be the man who becomes the Pirate King!
Eiichiro Oda -
Beauty is a King that needs to be obeyed.
Nuh Ha Mim Keller -
That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.
Thomas Hardy -
The lyrics were my sarcastic way of realizing you can't be the king of the hill all the time.
Hayley Williams Paramore -
Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.
Ethan Canin
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I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.
Richard Petty -
Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own sin and not to judge my brother, for You are blessed from all ages to all ages. Amen
Ephrem the Syrian -
Even those modern secularists and liberals who hate the metaphysics illustrated by Plato’s allegory of the cave thrill to the idea that the common man is in the grip of illusion and ought to be ruled by philosopher-kings, even if their idea of a philosopher-king would have filled Plato with abject horror.
Edward Feser -
October 17th Sunday Dresden I am by the fire with not another light but it … It is now after 5. All was dark excep the fire. I lay by it and listened to the wind and thought of the times at home in the country when I lay by the fire with some hickory nuts until like the slave who Again he is king by the banks of the niger Again he can hear the wild roar of the tiger Again I was lying by the roaring fire (with the cold October wind shrieking outside) in the cheerful lighted room and I turned around half expecting to see it all again and stern reality forced itself upon me and I thought of the time that would come never, never, never.
Edmund Morris