Quotes About King

I don't get that, I mean, what's power? Let's say he suddenly becomes king of the world. What is he going to do with it that he can't do now? Is his food going to taste better? Is the weather going to be nicer? Will love feel better? I just don't understand that mentality.

I've Never Cared Much For Mondays. If I were the king of the world, I'd have Mondays removed from the calendar. Of course the problem is that Tuesday would become the new Monday, which would defeat the purpose.

We can feel unworthy that the King of kings attends to such seemingly insignificant details in our lives. Read Matthew 6:25–34. As you think about your last week, thank Jesus for all the needs that He has met.

Is he having a party?" "Dorian is a sociable king. He likes keeping people around him, mostly so he can mock them.

Oh," she said. "You can rest assured that I will kill him. Mostly this is to emphasize what I said before: no more time to lounge around and decide with no consequences. For every moment you waste deliberating today, the Oak King will be in the hands of my torturers, experiencing the most excruciating pain. Your delay extends that agony." "Oh, irony," murmured Dorian.

You must not have played chess in a while. The king is the weakest piece in the game." He gave Justin a level look. "The queen's the strongest.

Need I point out that, despite the old saw about uneasy heads and crowns, it is nevertheless safer to be publicly a king than it is to be a pretender in hiding? A king can usually abdicate to save his neck; a pretender may renounce his pretensions but it makes his neck no safer—less so, in fact; it leaves him naked to his enemies.

Never appear overly greedy for attention, then, for it signals insecurity, and insecurity drives power away. Understand that there are times when it is not in your interest to be the center of attention. When in the presence of a king or queen, for instance, or the equivalent thereof, bow and retreat to the shadows; never compete.

On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God. O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men, Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts.

A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I'm the tree in the forest that silently falls--when no one is around to be crushed! [Lothaire, Enemy of Old]

When they passed the centaur king's cell, Volos pointed at Regin and slid his forefinger across his throat. She replied, Hey, didn't I see you in a donkey show down in Tijuana? No? You've got a twin then--

Five houses?" Lothaire had sneered, cutting Trehan off. "You all live under one roof now. Mine. Because I'm the king of the castle." Then his red eyes had grown vacant, and he'd begun muttering about "Lizvetta's lingerie." Trehan had been … underwhelmed by the Enemy of Old's attention span.

Vrekeners actually exist? L, The King

Nïx turned to the rest of them and called out, "Party's over, because the demon king's lame. I mean home. The demon king's home!

So do vampires, but that dinna stop our king from making one his queen," Rónan pointed out. "Does it hurt?

Wicked Abyss, page 279, Lila, Princess Calliope of Sylvan to Abyssian Sian Infernas, King of Pandemonia There's a face to the violence you love so much, a cost that the Morior never have to pay. Why wouldn't you love war? You never feel the toll like the rest of us.

He surveyed the dimly lit space. She'd lured him directly into a large dungeon cell. And one he recognized, because he'd kept prisoners here when he was master and king of Castle Tornin. She's trapped me in my own goddamned dungeon.

One who is Master of himself is always a King, if only to himself.

Indeed, the crown alone betokened majesty; in all else the, Scarecrow King was but a simple scarecrow—flimsy, awkward, and unsubstantial.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

disrespectful words cannot entirely be eaten, ever. Respect is a kind of Humpty Dumpty. All the king's horses can't put it all the way up again.

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!' the gunslinger roared. 'You have forgotten the faces of those who made you!

That's why counterfeiting money has always been considered a much more serious crime than other acts of deception. Counterfeiting is not just cheating – it's a breach of sovereignty, an act of subversion against the power, privileges and person of the king. The legal term is lese-majesty (violating majesty), and was typically punished by torture and death.

Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.