Quotes About King

MOYERS: A new king or new queen of England is given the coronation ring. CAMPBELL: Yes, because there's another aspect of the ring—it is a bondage. As king, you are bound to a principle. You are living not simply your own way. You have been marked. In initiation rites, when people are sacrificed and tattooed, they are bonded to another and to the society.

King John was not a good man, He had his little ways. And sometimes no one spoke to him, For days and days and days.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

It wasn't a conventional divorce trial. The king's advisers wouldn't allow that, for fear that Caroline would introduce counterevidence of her husband's adultery, of which there was plenty.

I'm a pastor. I lead Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. served.

I grew up Catholic, so I have these defenses about listening to anything with too much religiosity; some of the lyrics didn't sit well in my mouth. One of my beefs is the patriarchal setup. Having the 'he, he, he, God, God, God, king, king, king' stuff was hard for me.

I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.

come, ancient and unchanging night Night, born as dethroned king, Night, internally equal to silence, Night. With sequins of volatile starlight Woven on your robe with infinity Come quietly Come fleet-footed Come alone.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Custom is the lord of everything, of mortals and immortals king. High violence it justifies, with hand uplifted plundering.

When I was twenty they told me to swear loyalty to the King, a person who acts in the capacity because his father and grandfather did the same before him. I took the oath because they forced my to, otherwise I wouldn't have done it. Then they sent me to kill people I didn't know who were dressed rather like I was. One day they said to me: "Look, there's one of your enemies, fire at him," and I fired, but missed. But he fired and wounded me. I don't know why they said it was a glorious wound.

But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to stop the army, and not to neglect but maintain the Roman cause, now in extreme danger. The prayer was no sooner made, than shame and respect for their king checked many; the fears of the fugitives changed suddenly into confidence.

Kesetiaan memang bisa diharapkan dari mereka (orang kebanyakan), tetapi kebesaran hanya bisa datang dari seorang raja yang bijaksana

Prabarini selama-lamanya adalah kekasihku. Hanya karena aku bukan raja, aku tak dapat mempertahankannya.

The classical Liberal, during the Revolutionary time, was a man who wanted less power for the king and more power for the people. He wanted people to have more say in the running of their lives and he wanted protection for the God-given rights of the people. He did not believe those rights were dispensations granted by the king to the people, he believed that he was born with them. Well, that today is the Conservative.

At the king's court every one for himself. #Betrayer

The king inherits a country -- the people only hard work.

When a king has good counselors, his reign is peaceful.

A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.

Extolling the supremacy of fate, Chanakya says that it is impossible for anyone to overrule it. It is the miracle of fate which can make a king to become a pauper and a pauper to become a king. Whatever God has in store for a man, he has to bear the consequences accordingly.

King, they work, because they must. We work, because we are in love with life. That is why they condemn us as unpractical, and we condemn them as lifeless.

A lot of people would probably get quite bored watching a series about a king who is powerful and never showed any vulnerability.

Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.

You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there.