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Image of Winston Churchill
872, Ivar, King of the Northmen of all Ireland and Britain , ended his life." He had conquered Mercia and East Anglia. He had captured the major stronghold of the kingdom of Strathclyde, Dumbarton. Laden with loot and seemingly invincible, he settled in Dublin and died there peacefully two years later. The pious chroniclers report that he "slept in Christ." Thus it may be that he had the best of both worlds.
- Winston Churchill
Collection: Kings
Image of Lord Chesterfield
I am provoked at the contempt which most historians show for humanity in general; one would think by them, that the whole human species consisted but of about a hundred and fifty people, called and dignified (commonly very undeservedly too) by the titles of Emperors, Kings, Popes, Generals, and Ministers.
- Lord Chesterfield
Collection: Kings
Image of Hugo Chavez
That man, the king of vacations... the king of vacations in his ranch said nothing but, you have to flee, and didn't say how... that cowboy, the cowboy mentality.
- Hugo Chavez
Collection: Kings
Image of Robbie Robertson
Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll.
- Robbie Robertson
Collection: Kings
Image of Robert Burns
From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "An honest man 's the noblest work of God."
- Robert Burns
Collection: Kings
Image of KRS-One
We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look at every Martin Luther King Boulevard out here, and it's a crack block. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just have that problem, and it's something that I am going to spend the rest of my life trying to conquer.
- KRS-One
Collection: Kings
Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Collection: Kings
Image of John Cena
Ladies and Gentlemen, King of the Stupid Question: Todd Grisham!
- John Cena
Collection: Kings
Image of Chanakya
The king shall lose no time when the opportunity waited for arrives.
- Chanakya
Collection: Kings
Image of Chanakya
It is better to be without a king than to have a bad one.
- Chanakya
Collection: Kings
Image of Bill Hybels
I'm praying to the Creator of the world, the King of the universe, the all-powerful, all-knowing, all-faithful God. I'm praying to the God who made the mountains and who can move them if necessary. I'm praying to the God who has always been faithful to me, who has never let me down no matter how frightened I was or how difficult the situation looked. I'm praying to a God who wants to bear fruit through me, and I am going to trust that he is going to use me tonight. Not because of who I am, but because of who he is. He is faithful.
- Bill Hybels
Collection: Kings
Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Collection: Kings
Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Collection: Kings
Image of Mary Parker Follett
a little of the ready reliance on the expert comes from the desire to waive responsibillity, comes from the endless evasion of life instead of an honest facing of it. The expert is to many what the priest is, someone who knows absolutely and can tell us what to do. The king, the priest, the expert, have one after the other had our allegiance, but so far as we put any of them in the place of ourselves, we have not a sound society and neither individual nor general progress.
- Mary Parker Follett
Collection: Kings
Image of Lewis Carroll
If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know," he went on [...]; "I seem to see some meaning in them, after all.
- Lewis Carroll
Collection: Kings
Image of Lord Chesterfield
It is reported here that the King of Prussia has gone mad and has been locked up. There would be nothing bad about that: at leastthat might of his would no longer be a menace, and you could breathe freely for a while. I much prefer madmen who are locked up to those who are not.
- Lord Chesterfield
Collection: Kings
Image of Garry Winogrand
I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start, really, with Martin Luther King in Birmingham. He did the bus thing. And I don't think anything that followed would have happened if the press hadn't paid attention.
- Garry Winogrand
Collection: Kings
Image of Sherman Alexie
Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.
- Sherman Alexie
Collection: Kings
Image of Shane Claiborne
It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.
- Shane Claiborne
Collection: Kings
Image of Janet Morris
War is all and king of all
- Janet Morris
Collection: Kings
Image of Janet Morris
Only from chaos does order come. The angry Fates bring death where they will, when war is king, says Enlil, storm god of the armies, and the tip of his crown rends the clouds above their heads. "Wheresoever I rule, death comes shambling after. So it has always been, is, and will be."
- Janet Morris
Collection: Kings
Image of Ava DuVernay
There's never been a film with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the center released in theaters. Ever! One does not exist. You've only seen tele-films and stage plays about him. Yet, we have big screens biopics about all kinds of people. So, I think it's only right that there be a full-length feature about Dr. King. I don't think there could be enough of them, but there should be at least one. So, here it is!
- Ava DuVernay
Collection: Kings
Image of Edmund Burke
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
- Edmund Burke
Collection: Kings
Image of Winston Churchill
We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed. And should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — “Shall I speak for thee to the King or the Captain of the host?” — we should reply with the Shunamite woman: “Nay, Sir, for we dwell among our own people.”
- Winston Churchill
Collection: Kings
Image of Martin Buber
I have learned a new form of service from the wars of Frederick, king of Prussia. It is not necessary to approach the enemy in order to attack him. In fleeing from him, it is possible to circumvent him as he advances and fall on him from the rear and force him to surrender. What is needed is not to strike straight at evil but to withdraw to the sources of divine power, and from there to circle around evil, bend it and transform it into its opposite.
- Martin Buber
Collection: Kings
Image of Cassandra Clare
Then I lost him for a brief period of time, and by the time I caught up with him, he had wandered into Hyde Park, waded into the Serpetine, spread his arms wide, and was shouting, 'Ducks, embrace me as your king!
- Cassandra Clare
Collection: Kings
Image of Winston Churchill
Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a power more durable than that of a great king. He is an independent force in the world.
- Winston Churchill
Collection: Kings
Image of Chanakya
The king shall singly deliberate over secret matters; for ministers have their own ministers, and these latter some of their own; this kind of successive line of ministers tends to the disclosure of counsels.
- Chanakya
Collection: Kings
Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Collection: Kings
Image of Washington Allston
It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over, nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a vane, to show which way the wind blows, even when every feature is set the other way; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear under a fierce countenance; the legs shake with anger when all above us calm.
- Washington Allston
Collection: Kings
Image of Nicholas of Cusa
All visible things would not claim as their king some color of their region, which is actually among the visible things of this region, but rather would say, he is the highest possible beauty of the most lucid and perfect color.
- Nicholas of Cusa
Collection: Kings
Image of Edmund Burke
Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.
- Edmund Burke
Collection: Kings
Image of Thomas Traherne
It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours? Do you not covet all? Do you not long to have it; to enjoy it; to overcome it? To what end do men gather riches, but to multiply more? Do they not like Pyrrhus the King of Epire, add house to house and lands to lands, that they may get it all?
- Thomas Traherne
Collection: Kings
Image of Millicent Fenwick
In our times, significantly, the three outstanding voices against violence have been silenced by murder - Mahatma Gandhi in India, Archbishop Romero in El Salvador, and Dr. Martin Luther King, here at home.
- Millicent Fenwick
Collection: Kings
Image of Madonna Ciccone
And, it seems like a whole new generation of kids have discovered his genius and are bringing him to life again. I hope that wherever Michael is right now he is smiling about this. Yes, Michael Jackson was a human being but he was a king. Long live the king.
- Madonna Ciccone
Collection: Kings
Image of Muhammad Ali
I'm the king of the world, I am the greatest, I'm Muhammed Ali, I shook up the world, I am the greatest, I'm king of the world, I'm pretty, I'm pretty, I'm a baaaad man, you heard me I'm a baaad man, Archie Moore fell in four, Liston wanted me more, so since he's so great, I'm a make him fall in eight, I'm a baaad man, I'm king of the world! I'm 22 years old and ain't gotta mark on my face, I'm pretty, I easily survived six rounds with that ugly bear, because I am the greatest.
- Muhammad Ali
Collection: Kings
Image of Paul David Tripp
We, with all of our sin, weakness, and failures are welcome to do what should blow our minds. We are not only tolerated by God at a distance; no, we are welcomed into intimate personal communion with the King of kings, the Lord of lords, the creator, the sovereign, the Savior. We, as unholy as we are, are told to go with confidence into his holy presence.
- Paul David Tripp
Collection: Kings
Image of Forest Whitaker
As an artist, it's a great opportunity to play a character like this [Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland]. And then, as a person, I had never been to the African continent. So, I knew, personally, it would reshape me.
- Forest Whitaker
Collection: Kings
Image of Forest Whitaker
I was trying to capture this man's [Idi Amin] energy, and I did a lot of research in studying him. I tried to capture his 'Warrior King' energy inside of me as much as possible.
- Forest Whitaker
Collection: Kings
Image of Forest Whitaker
I hope that audiences respond really positively. I think it's a very intense, entertaining film [The Last King of Scotland], because you're brought in on a fun ride, and slowly you fall into it as James [actor James McAvoy's character, Dr. Nicholas Garrigan] does. Nicholas is like the audience. I think it's a good ride for people. And you learn something, as well.
- Forest Whitaker
Collection: Kings
Image of CM Punk
King Kofi Kingston. The initials are horrible but the name sounds great.
- CM Punk
Collection: Kings
Image of CM Punk
Right now at the announce table we've got two kings and a queen, I'll let you figure out who's who.
- CM Punk
Collection: Kings
Image of Nick Cave
No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.
- Nick Cave
Collection: Kings
Image of Hillary Clinton
I agree with the secretary [Hillary Clinton] that I think what has to happen - and let me just mention what King Abdullah of Jordan said. I think he hit the nail on the head.
- Hillary Clinton
Collection: Kings
Image of Hillary Clinton
What King Abdullah of Jordan said is essentially the war against ISIS is a war for the soul of Islam. And it must be Muslim troops on the ground that will destroy ISIS, with the support of a coalition of major powers - U.S., U.K., France, Germany and Russia.
- Hillary Clinton
Collection: Kings
Image of Shelby Steele
Sometimes, Barack Obama is Martin Luther King, sometimes, he a black militant from the Sixties, then he's a Baptist minister. He can be so different. There's not yet an Obama voice.
- Shelby Steele
Collection: Kings
Image of Noam Chomsky
We don't live in tyrannies, you know, the king doesn't decide what's legitimate, and there's much more freedom than there was in the past.
- Noam Chomsky
Collection: Kings