During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
Mika Waltari
LifeHopePastI AmMy LifeKings
Johnny Carson was king of the kings, in my opinion.
Don Rickles
KingOpinionKingsJohnny
This is the home of hurdling, and the Americans are the kings of the event.
Dayron Robles
HomeKingsEvent
I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
Bob Dylan
WingsKingsNeverBeenImpressed
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
William Morris
HistoryArtPeopleKingsRemembered
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson
HistoryTrustManGovernmentKings
I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level.
Muammar al-Gaddafi
LeaderI AmKingMeKingsAfrica
I don't have a specific message for 'The Grace of Kings' and the sequels in mind other than wanting to challenge some of the source material I was working from as well as some of the assumptions of epic fantasy.
Ken Liu
ChallengeMindGraceKingsFantasy
I love Kings of Leon.
Juno Temple
LoveKingsI Love
What a thing, Europe. Europe! The cultured Europe! We are the barbarians, the Indians, the blacks, the southerners. How cynical is Europe. Chavez the tyrant! Chavez the strongman! Chavez, who wants to stay forever. While there, they have kings, my friend!
Hugo Chavez
FriendKingsEuropeForeverCynical
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
Gore Vidal
LifeLoveWorldFarmKingsBecome
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings.
Ezra Taft Benson
IndependencePoliticalKingsMoral
Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
Charles James Fox
KingsWithoutCannotOnlyGovern
I put myself on the same level as everyone else around me - from the directrice to the workman, everyone. Except my pets - they are the Kings; you must treat them like royalty.
Azzedine Alaia
MyselfMeTreatRoyaltyYouKings
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
FriendshipWorldFriendsKingsWhose
Anglo-Saxon kings often used to favour their sister's son to their own - for at least you could guarantee there was your own blood in your sister's son!
Kate Williams
SonSisterYouKingsBloodOwn
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
Benjamin Disraeli
MomentDayPresentKingsPlansLast
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
Sallust
GoodKingsBadOthersMoreAfraid
In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.
Karen Maitland
FamilyThinkKingsEnglishMiddle
The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.
Fidel Castro
GoldKingsCountryPlacesLandAir
I learned from my dad that when you walk in front of an audience, they are the kings and queens, and you're but the jester.
Jerry Lewis
WalkYouKingsAudienceFrontDad
The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis Stevenson
HappyWorldKingsThingsSureFull
Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.
Ann Landers
WalkKingsPersonClassVirtueTalk
The Spanish offered me their protection, and liberty to those who would fight for the cause of the kings. I accepted their offers, seeing myself entirely abandoned by my brethren, the French.
Toussaint Louverture
MyselfFightMeKingsSeeingWould
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