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Quotes About King

Greetings," I said, bowing slightly. "I am Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez." She smirked. "Chief metallurgist to King Charles the Fifth of Spain?" "At your service," I replied, grinning. She'd caught my obscure Highlander quote and thrown another right back at me. It was Art3mis, all right.
~ Ernest Cline
It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an undead king, both hunched over the controls of a classic arcade game.
~ Ernest Cline
It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an undead king, both hunched over the controls of a classic arcade game. It was the sort of surreal image you'd expect to see on the cover of an old issue of Heavy Metal or Dragon magazine.
~ Ernest Cline
A lion shorn of his strength, an eagle robbed of his freedom, or a dove bereft of his mate, all die, it is said, of a broken heart; and who will aver that this grim bandit could bear the threefold brunt, heart-whole? This only I know, that when the morning dawned, he was lying there still in his position of calm repose, but his spirit was gone-the old king-wolf was dead.
~ Ernest Thompson Seton
The antithesis served the Anonymous, it is true, to observe very strictly the inherent difference between the God and the king; but it served him also to blur that line of distinction and to show where the difference between "God by nature" and "god by grace" ended; that is, in the case of potestas , of power. Essence and substance of power are claimed to be equal in both God and king, no matter whether that power be owned by nature or only acquired by grace.
~ Ernst H. Kantorowicz
Sul corno insanguinato del vincitore si posarono le farfalle bianche. Una di loro ci restò per sempre, per generazioni di farfalle, petalo a sbattere nel vento sopra il re dei camosci nelle stagioni da aprile a novembre.
~ Erri De Luca
The place I have in mind is always deserted. No one likes to go there. They think the place is haunted by the old king's spirit." "Theseus's warriors fear ghosts?" I wanted to laugh. "Lord Kekrops's ghost is different. He was a dragon from the waist down." I raised my eyebrows. "Better that than from the waist up, I suppose.
~ Esther M. Friesner
The Argo was no longer beached beside the other ships but rocked at anchor some distance from shore. "The king's orders," Iolaus whispered. "He thinks that once the ship's got all her supplies aboard, she'd be too heavy for us to launch. That shows how little he knows of ships, or how little he thinks of us!" "Or how eager he is to be sure nothing keeps Prince Jason here," I murmured.
~ Esther M. Friesner
Star power will always remain relevant but content has become the king.
~ Angad Bedi
What began as a revolt in response to the King of Great Britain's repeated injuries against the colonies, soon became a passionate and glorious call to fight for the beginnings of a new country.
~ John Linder
In truth, we have delayed to pass sentence on the person of our lord the king, waiting, if perhaps he may, by God's grace, repent; but we will pass it ere long unless he does repent.
~ Thomas Becket
We are a republic, very inefficient. If you want a really efficient form of government, you have a king or a dictator. And in the end, you hope it's a benevolent one. But then you could get things done. There's no lurching; there's no bumps. That's the cornerstone of checks and balances.
~ Rick Santelli
It's simply incorrect to call Dr. King a Republican.
~ David Garrow
Newman King was a fictional figurehead, a made-up character.
~ Bentley Little
and the last shot of the report was of King getting into a chauffeur-driven limousine in front of the black tower.
~ Bentley Little
I hated Alfred. He was a miserable, pious, tight-fisted king who distrusted me because I was no Christian, because I was a northerner, and because I had given him his kingdom back at Ethandun. And as reward he had given me Fifhaden. Bastard.
~ Bernard Cornwell
The man who slowly walked away from them was a king in their society. A day had come when he had decided that he did not need any kingship other than the kind of wife everybody would loathe from the bottom of their hearts.
~ Bessie Head
If you are not royalty, He is not King.
~ Beth Moore
If valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth, as Steven King once said, then Silicon Valley is the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all.
~ Betty Dravis
Treat your husband like a king... you are the pray-er; Jesus is the answered.
~ Betty Malz
Brihadbala was the last Kosala king. In the Kurukshetra War, he fought on the side of the Kouravas and was killed by
~ Bibek Debroy
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
~ Bible
By justice a king gives a country stability.
~ bible quotes v
We reign with the heart of a servant and serve with the heart of a king, all for the benefit of the people around us. Rulers in God's Kingdom never rule for their own sake. It is always for the sake of others.
~ Bill Johnson