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Image of J. M. Coetzee
As during the time of kings it would have been naive to think that the king's firstborn son would be the fittest to rule, so in our time it is naive to think that the democratically elected ruler will be the fittest. The rule of succession is not a formula for identifying the best ruler, it is a formula for conferring legitimacy on someone or other and thus forestalling civil conflict.
- J. M. Coetzee
Collection: Kings
Image of Charles Caleb Colton
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Collection: Kings
Image of Alexander Kotov
If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible even though there seemed no particular hurry at the time.
- Alexander Kotov
Collection: Kings
Image of Paulo Coelho
They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.
- Paulo Coelho
Collection: Kings
Image of Stephen Crane
Tell her this And more,— That the king of the seas Weeps too, old, helpless man. The bustling fates Heap his hands with corpses Until he stands like a child With surplus of toys.
- Stephen Crane
Collection: Kings
Image of Roy Jones Jr.
I feel ashamed tonight that we treated Lennox Lewis the way we did because he gave it all his effort but everytime Don King's involved, you can expect a draw to come from somewhere. Ask Pernell Whitaker about the Julio Cesar Chavez fight...I thought Evander Holyfield gave a very game effort, but you win some and you lose some...tonight I'm upset because Lennox Lewis did not lose and it was not a draw. It's as simple as that.
- Roy Jones Jr.
Collection: Kings
Image of Don King
Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I stand before you a free man. Free in body, free in spiret and free in mind! It has been a long, hard and excruciatingingly painful road. For more than five years there has been one investigation after another and now, vindication. And to give the proper dimension I take the cherished words of the late great Dr Martin Luther King: Free at last...thank God Almighty, I'm free at last.
- Don King
Collection: Kings
Image of Don King
If you are a blackman in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a vidio camera. Don't rely on some passerby to film the beating. Rodney King was just lucky.
- Don King
Collection: Kings
Image of Don King
Who would you vote most likely to succeed? Bob Arum - White, Jewish, a graduate of Harvard, a Kennady Raider, United States Attorney. Don King - black, poor, out of the hard core getto of Cleveland, Ohio, numbers runner, a little confectionary dealer, ex-convict. Now who would you vote to succeed? It would be hands down........ Yet in this great land called America, I have out performed, outachieved, been more recognizable, did more, broke more records, and had more of a phenominal career, where Arum can't tie my shoe string. You understand?
- Don King
Collection: Kings
Image of Nat Hentoff
In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist.
- Nat Hentoff
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Image of Gautama Buddha
The judgment: You are now before Yama, King of the Dead. In vain will you try to...deny or conceal the evil deeds you have done. ... the mirror in which Yama seems to read your past is your own memory, and also his judgment is your own. It is you yourself who pronounce your own judgment.
- Gautama Buddha
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Image of Richard Dawkins
My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11, 2001, followed by the 'National Day of Prayer,' when prelates and pastors did their tremulous Martin Luther King impersonations and urged people of mutually incompatible faiths to hold hands, united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the first place.
- Richard Dawkins
Collection: Kings
Image of Bruce Dickinson
King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time it's also a metaphor for one of the statures in the purification of man and the purification of mankind soul towards union with God and with Infinite, which is the philosophical aim of alchemists.
- Bruce Dickinson
Collection: Kings
Image of Paulo Coelho
It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge.
- Paulo Coelho
Collection: Kings
Image of Plato
A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.
- Plato
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Image of Solomon
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
- Solomon
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Image of Solomon
Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men.
- Solomon
Collection: Kings
Image of Yasmin Mogahed
As a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.
- Yasmin Mogahed
Collection: Kings
Image of Mike Dirnt
I hate saying that youth is wasted on the young since it's so f**king stupid, but I think you realize if you're fortunate enough to realize what you have, you don't want to sleep as much or squander any time. It's weird, but early in your career you don't stop to smell the roses since you're too busy picking them.
- Mike Dirnt
Collection: Kings
Image of Pierre Corneille
The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.
- Pierre Corneille
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Image of Kate DiCamillo
When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.
- Kate DiCamillo
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Image of Kate DiCamillo
The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.
- Kate DiCamillo
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Image of John Petrucci
I wanted something different. I'd been using the C+ amps for a long time, and I love them - they're one of my favorite amps ever. But on this album [Road Kings] I wanted - there were a couple reasons, actually. One is that I wanted a more aggressive sound, some more teeth and hair.
- John Petrucci
Collection: Kings
Image of Sophocles
Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.
- Sophocles
Collection: Kings
Image of Laurie Anderson
Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
- Laurie Anderson
Collection: Kings
Image of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Dinocrates did not leave the king, but followed him into Egypt. There Alexander, observing a harbor rendered safe by nature, an excellent center for trade, cornfields throughout all Egypt, and the great usefulness of the mighty river Nile, ordered him to build the city of Alexandria, named after the king. This was how Dinocrates, recommended only by his good looks and dignified carriage, came to be so famous.
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Collection: Kings
Image of Pierre Corneille
Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.
- Pierre Corneille
Collection: Kings
Image of Megan Chance
Of course, there are hundreds of novels and authors that have influenced me. But to choose three, they are: Stephen King/The Stand (and really most of his books); Anne Rice/The Witching Hour; and Pat Conroy/The Prince of Tides. These authors write my favorite kind of book - epic feel, gorgeous prose, unique characters, and a pace that keeps you turning the pages. From them, I learned a lot about characterization, pacing, prose, voice, and originality.
- Megan Chance
Collection: Kings
Image of Megan Chance
[I am more than happy to invite my five favorite fictional characters.]Roland Deschain from Stephen King's Dark Tower series. There's a whole world about Roland left to know. I've got questions. He'd have answers. So pour him a glass of wine.
- Megan Chance
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Image of Tommy Cooper
So a man jumps into a taxi and says "King Arthur's close" and the taxi driver says, "don't worry we'll lose him at the next lights".
- Tommy Cooper
Collection: Kings
Image of Solomon
Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.
- Solomon
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Image of Austin O'Malley
The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.
- Austin O'Malley
Collection: Kings
Image of Debbie Reynolds
I had a lot of fun with Frank Sinatra, because he was such a hooligan, and so to himself, he was the king, and everything was his way, and I enjoyed watching that.
- Debbie Reynolds
Collection: Kings
Image of Richard Dawkins
Religion has been a powerful weapon in the hands of governments, in the hands of priests, in the hands of kings who have used it as a weapon to keep down the populace. It is a wonderful way of disciplining people and making them do what you want, to tell them that if they don't do what you want they will, for example, go to Hell.
- Richard Dawkins
Collection: Kings
Image of Confucius
Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.
- Confucius
Collection: Kings
Image of Alex Gaskarth
F**king dance whenever you want to dance.
- Alex Gaskarth
Collection: Kings
Image of Oliver Cromwell
In return for financial support will advocate admission of Jews to England; This however impossible while Charles living. Charles cannot be executed without trial on adequate grounds for which do not presently exist. Therefore advise that Charles be assassinated, but will have nothing to do with arrangements for procuring an assassin, though willing to help in his escape. [King Charles I was in prison at the time].
- Oliver Cromwell
Collection: Kings
Image of Oliver Cromwell
If any man whatsoever hath carried on the design of deposing the King and disinheriting his posterity; or if any man hath yet such a design he should be the greatest traitor and rebel in the world; but, since the Providence of God hath cast this upon us, I cannot but submit to Providence.
- Oliver Cromwell
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Image of Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Saul Bellow has that character in Henderson the Rain King say: "I want, I want, I want!"9 I remember reading this passage years ago and thinking, yes, that's the human.
- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Collection: Kings
Image of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
At Halicarnassus, the house of that most potent king Mausolus, though decorated throughout with Proconnesian marble, has walls built of brick which are to this day of extraordinary strength, and are covered with stucco so highly polished that they seem to be as glistening as glass. That king did not use brick from poverty; for he was choke-full of revenues, being ruler of all Caria.
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Collection: Kings
Image of John Petrucci
With the Road King amp, you're able to switch power tubes and speakers and do all these different things. And I didn't want to have five different heads in my rack. And there's something about, when you do the type of setup that I have, unless you have a dedicated amp to a dedicated speaker and you're actually switching, you have to use the same power section of the main head that you're using.
- John Petrucci
Collection: Kings
Image of Kate DiCamillo
He was weeping. Although 'weeping' really is to small a word for the activity the kind had undertaken. Tears were cascading from his eyes. A small puddle had formed at his feet. I am not exaggerating. The king, it seemed, was intent on crying himself a river.
- Kate DiCamillo
Collection: Kings
Image of Charles Caleb Colton
The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Collection: Kings
Image of Jacques Ellul
I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an irreducible dialogue (like that between king and prophet in Israel), to antistatism, to a decentralizing of the relation, to an extreme relativizing of everything political, to an anti-ideology, to a questioning of all that claims either power or dominion (in other words, of all things political), and finally, if we may use a modern term, to a kind of "anarchism" (so long as we do not relate the term to the anarchist teaching of the nineteenth century).
- Jacques Ellul
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Image of David Eddings
I didn't particularly feel like being arrested, so I argued with the soldiers a bit. Several of them died during the argument - those things happen once in a while. Unfortunately, one of the casualties was Taur Urgas' oldest son. The king of the Murgos took it personally. He's very narrow-minded sometimes. - Silk
- David Eddings
Collection: Kings
Image of David Eddings
Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts for inspiration--and there are a lot of those texts. We have King Arthur and his gang in English; we've got Siegfried and Brunhild in German; Charlemagne and Roland in French; El Cid in Spanish; Sigurd the Volsung in Icelandic; and assorted 'myghtiest Knights on lyfe' in a half-dozen other cultures. Without shame, we pillage medieval romance for all we're worth.
- David Eddings
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Image of Brian Michael Bendis
Jeph (Loeb) will call me with updates, and I'll go, "Are you f--king with me?" I never saw this coming, and certainly never saw it coming while I was still coherent and in the game. That's the difference between me and the previous generations. (Legendary X-Men writer) Chris Claremont had to wait decades before his s - t was on the screen.
- Brian Michael Bendis
Collection: Kings
Image of John Dryden
War is a trade of kings.
- John Dryden
Collection: Kings