In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.
Robert Herrick
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
Moliere
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I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.
Denzel Washington
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So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.
Chris Roberson
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I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.
Antonio Banderas
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As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
Pierre Corneille
GreatMenKingsMayLikeErr
Who shall resist Anti-Christ when he comes if we show such patience towards the vices and crimes of his precursors? By such leniency, we encourage kings to become tyrants and tempt them to withdraw every privilege and all jurisdiction from the Churches.
Thomas Becket
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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
Marquis de Sade
KingsWhyAfraidTyrantsSave
For 'The Grace of Kings,' I read Han Dynasty historical records in Classical Chinese, which allowed me to get a sense of the complexity of the politics and the 'surprisingly modern' reactions of the historical figures to recurrent problems of state administration.
Ken Liu
PoliticsGraceMeProblemsKings
The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.
Julius Wellhausen
AgeEndKingsJudgesMoreWhole
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Horace
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There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.
George R. R. Martin
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Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier.
Elliott Abrams
DemocracyEndKingsNowWillYears
I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
Bill Wyman
LoveKingsPlayRhythmSmaller
For 'The Lobster Kings,' I listened to a lot of Johnny Cash. And it makes its way into the book.
Alexi Zentner
BookKingsWayCashLobsterMakes
I don't believe people playing rock n' roll should have crowns. We're not kings and queens. Anybody can play it.
Patti Smith
PeopleBelieveKingsPlayRockRoll
Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
Kate Williams
LoveBetterKingsNeverWhatever
It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
Victor Hugo
EndKingsYesFrance
Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
Pankaj Mishra
BusinessWorldPosingKingsIndia
In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.
Ira Glass
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
Aaron Sorkin
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Nowadays I'm more interested in what you'd call 'alternative.' Lately we've been listening to a lot of Mumford & Sons, and Jenny Owen Youngs. I'm also pretty crazy about the Kings of Convenience, a Norwegian band that's been compared to Simon and Garfunkel.
Jennifer Egan
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It's what kings do. If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best.
Max Holloway
BestYouKingsWantBeat
Kings and queens are expected to have offspring to carry on the name. There are no such demands on American presidents, but there is an expectation. There is a hope.
Michael Beschloss
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