Ed King Quotes

You know, sometimes the right thing isn’t the thing you think is right. It’s the wrong thing you’re afraid to think of.

Content Is King, Distribution is Queen

You'll never know your strength if you avoid your challenges

No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire.

By shooting the darkest areas three zones lighter, you turned a black, lifeless max black zone 0 into a zone 3. I think, in life, most of us did this all the time.

It was easier to tell a hero from villain when the stakes were only life or death. Everything in between gets harder.

Vodka goes well with a wintery perspective. Nothing else provokes such presentiments of falling snow except, for some, the communist seizure of the state.

I’ve got to stop this. Stop worrying about the why. Stop forcing what was happening into the realm of impossible. Stop hiding behind excuses. Stop being afraid to step out on faith.

Surely it is more civilized to kill one man every few months, hold up his head for all to behold, say his name, and return home for a feast than to slaughter nameless millions.

The Beatitudes correspond to the Decalogue, with blessings in lieu of the forbidden.

What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my audience is, I’m dead, I’m not going to make any money.

Want to get your kids to read more? Try making books easily accessible. Put them where kids can easily reach and don't make them off limits. (within reason)

There, in the Levantine crossroads between Europe, Africa, and Asia, the sovereign nation of Israel would exemplify what right looks like.

You're just a coward, like all those who stand behind the suffering of others.

Every library is a palace

Beth's not on that train?""Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor lives in.

Weakness is acceptable, forgivable, around family. But not when lives and wars hang in the balance.

Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing.

I don't know why, but watching someone else break made me feel a lot less broken.

You’re all so obsessed with other worlds, you’re so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you’ve never bothered to figure out what’s going on here!

Was she insane?! She would lose her head before she was 20!

You are dehydrated, " I said. "The result of alcohol taken in excess. But that is the only way to take it. It is the only way to do a man any good.

Every public speaker likes his hearer to imagine his oratory as an unpremeditated gift of nature, and not the result of prolonged and patient study [Lionel Logue said]

He smiles, even attractive, but appearances are unreliable depictions of character.

Love someone and they're yours forever

Forever doesn't exist because it hasn't started yet.

Practice what you preach. Don't be a staggering image of the same shame you place upon others. Live, love, be free. Most of all be real.

History, ' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.

The Widdern — the non-magical world, where science rules and many people believe that magic only exists in books. They’re wrong.

If you love me, feed my sheep.

We would be a few years younger, if every day we meditated for five minutes on the meanings of the word innocence.

Church didn't answer that. Instead he said, "The darkness is all around us. Very few people have the courage to light a candle against it.""I'm not that kind of idea

Oh, what an unbearable yoke is free will! What a vicious curse of the gods, granting self-determination to creatures incapable of guiding themselves! What good parent would free a child among tigers?

He was king, if he didn’t have enemies he wasn’t doing it right.

She saw that supreme dignity - and love - lay in tolerance.

In the quest for power, truth is always the first thing left behind.

Were you lying?""I never lie, " he said piously. "About what?""The sand, the snake."For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.

A simple solution to a problem could be as complex as a problem to a simple solution.

The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard.

Sometimes being given the elbow can turn out to be the best hand.

The first few hours in the cell were quite stimulating. I'd never been in a prison cell before and was quite enjoying the experience.

I told some imprecisely imagined interlocutor that each year I hoped to have outgrown being moved by the autumn and each year I hadn't

The nonchalance irritated her more because it was not assumed.

Do you know the one about how politics is show business for the ugly? State politics is show business for ugly people who can't remember their lines.

She is clothed in strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future.

Who grins in official circumstances?

More than that, in the five hundred years of European OCCUPATION, Native cultures have already driven themselves to be remarkably tenacious and resilient.

I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed but the spirit in which we face them that constitutes our comfort.

My luck was my father not striking oil... we'd have been rich. I'd never have set out for Hollywood with my camera and I'd have had a lot less interesting life.