One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of...

I would say that it is too late for that, my lord,” a feminine voice answered from the group gathered in the courtyard. They all turned to find the queen dressed in chain mail and...

I’ve never been innocent, but I don’t think I’m a bad kid! I didn’t get voted prom king. I was kind of the dancer, the performer, but I was always very athletic, too.

Being king is about having all the material things you want, and having nobody you trust enough to share them with.

Poverty will not take you to heaven, just repent of it and get rich, then you’ll trek into heaven like a king.

In Tybalt’s case, it means bloody control of the local Court of Cats. He became their king by right of blood; he’s held the position by beating the crap out of anyone who tries to...

The trap had a ghastly perfection

The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for the violin the glory of being called the king of instruments

Law is king of all.

Treat me like a king and I’ll treat you like a queen……….Treat me like a queen and off with your head

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

When your friend becomes a king, treat him first as a king, then let him choose you as a friend. Acting otherwise is suicidal. Familiarity is evil.

I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man to that high place. For sovereignty is a sacred trust...

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Great! I’m addressing the King of Altoln…about who knows what, but I’m at the centre of it and everyone’s looking at me now, oh for all the gods’ sake Falchion, swallow it down and say...

I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I owe them a lot.

Psalm 37:44 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands

They miss the whisper that runsany day in your mind,”Who are you really, wanderer?”–and the answer you have to giveno matter how dark and coldthe world around you is:”Maybe I’m a king.

I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., from Selma to Montgomery.

When Anu the Sublime, King of the Anunnaki, and Bel, the lord of Heaven and earth, who decreed the fate of the land assigned to Marduk, the over-ruling son of Ea, God of righteousness, dominion...

If you are strong, torture not the weak,And thus lay not the axe to thy empire.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

‎The only way Jesus can be our King is if we allow Him to be our Servant

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king.

The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are not the only kings in science. He also is a...

Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave...

Honestly, it’s terrible, but I don’t know if I’ve ever really read a Stephen King novel.

A King and Queen cannot support a crown with eyes looking down. Their universe expands as far as you can see.

Of all the vices which degrade the human character, Selfishness is the most odious and contemptible. An undue love of Self leads to the most mon strous crimes and occasions the greatest misfortunes both in...

Authority forgets a dying king.

When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.

In 1948 fishing was outlawed in Jacksonville by decree of the king. But nobody, besides my grandpa, listened to him, because he’d been dead for centuries—the king, not my grandpa. My grandpa had only been...

My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

People don’t get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don’t stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

SpleenJe suis comme le roi d’un pays pluvieux,Riche, mais impuissant, jeune et pourtant très vieux,Qui, de ses précepteurs méprisant les courbettes,S’ennuie avec ses chiens comme avec d’autres bêtes.Rien ne peut l’égayer, ni gibier, ni faucon,Ni...

If I were king, I wouldn’t pay you the money I owe you. I’d give you a far more valuable gift: the gift of life—your own. Yes, you’d get to keep it!

I was excited when King’s College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.

Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.

‎If we do not know the King that comes to your bedroom for the sole purpose of taking out your trash, then you have yet to know Jesus as the Servant of All.

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

The king died, and then the queen died of a broken heart. Her secret lover left her for a younger woman.

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

No film has captivated my imagination more than ‘King Kong.’ I’m making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.

I’m a huge Stephen King fan.