King Quotes - page 3

King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it. (Adrian Belew)
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience. View quote
Constance Baker Motley
All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better. View quote
Eliot Engel
Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region. View quote
Frank Carlucci
Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not. View quote
Howard Staunton
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace. View quote
John Mason Brown
Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being. View quote
Michael Bolton
The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me. View quote
Robin Trower
Amnesty is the magnet. Other magnets that you mentioned are anchor babies who get benefits in this country and employer deductions for employees, even if they are here illegally, which Mr. King is addressing. View quote
Virgil Goode
One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King. View quote
Zach Wamp
The King is a fighting piece. Use it! (Wilhelm Steinitz)
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the dignity that accompanies it, how much a free man feels like a king, the perpetual inner light that is produced by decorous self-awareness and realization, perhaps there would be no greater friends of freedom than those who are its worst enemies. View quote
José Martí
Methought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain. View quote
Samuel Pepys
Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about. View quote
Cory Doctorow
He [the King of Morocco] spends half his time asleep and the rest of it buried between the legs of the fairer sex. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
O Cyrus, great King, King of Kings, Achaemenian King, King of the land of Iran. I, the Shahanshah of Iran, offer thee salutations from myself and from my nation. Rest in peace, for we are awake, and we will always stay awake. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
As for King Hussein of Jordan, I cannot praise him enough. He is not only a friend, but a brother. His qualities as a man and his goodness of heart are enhanced by great courage and a true love of his country. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people. View quote
Blaise Pascal
You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits of desire... You are therefore properly the king of desire. ...equal in this to the greatest kings of the earth... It is desire that constitutes their power; that is, the possession of things that men covet. View quote
Blaise Pascal
A well proportioned mind is one which shows no particular bias one of which we may safely say that it will never cause its owner to be confined as a madman, tortured as a heretic, or crucified as a blasphemer. Also, on the other hand, that it will never cause him to be applauded as a prophet, revered as a priest, or exalted as a king. Its usual blessings are happiness and mediocrity. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king. (Thomas Hardy)
Law, the king of all mortals and immortals. View quote
Pindar
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope! View quote
Luigi Pirandello
Often we comfort ourselves only with words, but if we pray enough, the conviction will come too that Christ is our King, not Stalin, Bevins, or Truman. That He has all things in His hands, that 'all things work together for good for those that love Him. View quote
Dorothy Day
The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough. View quote
James Frazer