Kings Quotes

Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.

If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King.

The gospel is not about choosing to follow advice; it's about being called to follow a King.

I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.

I think there's a part of all of us that wonders how we would survive on an island untouched by Man. Even better, an island untouched by Man and inhabited by King Kong.

Who comes first? Don't be silly, says King Hal; it's employees. That is - and this dear Watson, is elementary - if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.

Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.

Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?

Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king." "Yes." "Unorthodox.

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint."

I want to be one of the greats. I want to be the pound for pound king and I know what it takes to get there.

Those two are carved from the same tree." the queen said. By the same blade." The high king answered and offered her his arm in splendid dignity

The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust I shall drive away Is flowers and kings, Is Solomon's temple, poets, Nineveh.

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

Russia will always remember the contribution [of King Fahd] in the development of Russian-Saudi relations, which in recent years were raised to a qualitatively higher level.

Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.

Look not thou on beauty's charming; Sit thou still when kings are arming; Taste not when the wine-cup glistens; Speak not when the people listens

Unfortunately, when you're the king of the hill, there's really only one way to go, and that's down.

When people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything.

Can't you just imagine digging up the King, begging him to sing about those heavenly mansions Jesus mentioned.

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.

God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'

Besides, our nearness to the King in love Is near the hate of those love not the King.

Thou art a Castilian King urinal!

Let us our lives, our souls, Our debts, our careful wives, Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!

If you be King, why should not I succeed?

This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd So many English kings.

Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no.

The Thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be King Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor.

For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court.

Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!

I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.

So doth the greater glory dim the less: A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by.

Cheerily to sea; the signs of war advance: No king of England, if not king of France

for my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. (Constance, from King John, Act III, scene 1)

You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still am I King of those.

'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.

You have but mistook me all the while... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king?

Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King?

Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.

This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, . . . This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land.

Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.

Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.