Kings Quotes

For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.

Michael W. Smith

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Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Diogenes

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What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

Christopher Marlowe

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I am 73 years old. I've seen everything. I've met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I've been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace.

Ariel Sharon

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Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

William Penn

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For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.

Thomas Malory

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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

Mark Twain

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The 'Grace of Kings' isn't a narrative about a return to some golden age, to a lost status quo ante. It portrays a dynamic world in transition, where the redistribution of power is messy, morally ambivalent, and only lurches toward more justice.

Ken Liu

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It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the Nineties as being 'greedy' by a gaggle of male designers who lived like Sun Kings.

Julie Burchill

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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

Honore de Balzac

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It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.

Goldwin Smith

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Your mind and soul are the kings of your physique way more than any exercise you do.

Evangeline Lilly

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Artificial lighting, air-conditioning, and automobiles, all powered by fossil fuels, swaddle us in our giddy modernity. In our ergonomic chairs and acoustical-panel cubicles, we sit cozy as kings atop 300 years of flaming carbon.

Charles C. Mann

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I started writing 'The Lobster Kings' the day after I sold my first novel, 'Touch.'

Alexi Zentner

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I want to see some queer politicians, some drag queens and drag kings running for office and shifting the way that policy is made as well.

Sasha Velour

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The motivations of kings in British history can generally be reduced to two: the quest for territory and the search for a male heir. No king was secure on his throne until he had a son, and no queen consort was ever really safe without a boy.

Kate Williams

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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

Xun Kuang

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I always sing Amy Winehouse's 'Valerie,' but also Kings Of Leon's 'Use Somebody.'

Paige

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When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

Imelda Marcos

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When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.

Caleb Cushing

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I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very low cost.

Joel Salatin

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We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

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The way they taught history in schools was not appealing. They stressed wars and dates. They left the people out. I was attracted to history by the need to know about the people. In China, I went to a British school, and we just learned about kings and queens. Back in America, I had the regular social studies curriculum.

Jean Fritz

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Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.

Tom Hiddleston

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