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Quotes About King

I'm the king of food, I eat out three to four meals a day.
~ Jonathan Cheban
Yes; my brother Bobby used to distribute records at King Records. I had a job there, too, packing records up and shipping them off. But I always wanted to play sessions at Stax, so I figured out a way to do it.
~ Donald Dunn
I usually just try to do whatever's on the page because I've done research before - including a lot of analysis - but you end up with conflicting data. To me, the script is king.
~ Michael Pena
Monsieur Puss came at last to a stately castle, the master of which was an Ogre, the richest ever known; for all the lands which the King had then passed through belonged to this castle.
~ Charles Perrault
As he explained to his officers and men, the war against Persia could not be finished until the shah, as the Persians called their king, was mat, or finished. The endgame had to be shah mat, a Persian phrase that would evolve in time into checkmate.
~ Philip Freeman
There is a king of natural selection that takes place among myths. Those that capture something essential to the human condition can be preserved for thousands of years. Those that are relevant only to a few are lost forever.
~ Philip Freeman
The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.
~ Pierre Corneille
A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.
~ Pierre Corneille
Any reporter who's ever covered the Middle East can tell you about the Arab leader photo op. It is one of the most curious acts of solipsism ever invented. The beloved leader-for-life, a king or a president, always a man, appears on some hideous filigreed-and-gilded couch or chair, chatting with an important visitor.
~ Neil Macdonald
The first day of shooting came, and of course I was nervous. I would lie if I said I wasn't impressed. I mean, Lars von Trier hiring me to be the king in 'Medea'... Lars said, 'Stop! Stop!' And I was so nervous, I turned around and said, 'What is it?' He said, '... Just be a tired king.'
~ Udo Kier
As you know, it's so important that we always embrace the sanctity of life. One way to do that is to vote pro-life in every election.
~ Alveda King
With Marathi cinema, content is king. It has always been driven by content. I am lucky that I don't have to leave home to seek a job elsewhere. The industry is here at home.
~ Amruta Khanvilkar
The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
The roots of King's worldview can be traced to the Bible up through the work of Walter Rauschenbusch, a Rochester, New York, minister and scholar who preached the "Social Gospel" of Christian-inspired reform, love, and action on earth.
~ Jon Meacham
Based on Gulliver's descriptions of their behaviour, the King describes Europeans as the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
~ Jonathan Swift
No digo esto con la más pequeña intención de disminuir las muchas virtudes de aquel excelente rey, cuyos méritos, sin embargo, temo que habrán de quedar muy mermados a los ojos del lector inglés con este motivo; pero juzgo que este defecto tiene por origen la ignorancia de aquel pueblo, que todavía no ha reducido la política a una ciencia
~ Jonathan Swift
they have been troubled with the same disease to which the whole race of mankind is subject; the nobility often contending for power, the people for liberty, and the King for absolute dominion. All which, however happily tempered by the laws of that Kingdom, have been sometimes violated by each of the three parties
~ Jonathan Swift
that his majesty gave many marks of his great lenity, often
~ Jonathan Swift
Y cuanto más clásico es el cuento, más infeliz es el rey. -Y este rey... ¿cuán clásico era? -Muy clásico. -Pobre.
~ Jorge Bucay
Nuestros actos prosiguen su camino, Que no conoce término. Maté a mi rey para que Shakespeare Urdiera su tragedia.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
De sus labios oí por primera vez el nombre del rey que era, Gunnlaug. Supe que librada la última guerra, miraba con recelo a los forasteros y que su hábito era crucificarlos. Para eludir ese destino, menos adecuado a un hombre que a un Dios, ...
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Liberado de la necesidad de la mentira, Sabe que hoy va a la muerte, no al olvido, Y que es un rey. La ejecución lo espera; La mañana es atroz y verdadera. No hay temor en su carne.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The hero whose attachment to ego is already annihilate passes back and forth across the horizons of the world, in and out of the dragon, as readily as a king through all the rooms of his house. And therein lies his power to save; for his passing and returning demonstrate that through all the contraries of phenomenality the Un-create- Imperishable remains, and there is nothing to fear (93).
~ Joseph Campbell
Woman, in the picture language of mythology, represents the totality of what can be known. The hero is the one who comes to know...And if he can match her import, the two, the knower and the known, will be released from every limitation... The hero who can take her as she is, without undue commotion but with the kindness and assurance she requires, is potentially the king, the incarnate god, of her created world.
~ Joseph Campbell