King quotations

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◆ I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality

- Martin Luther King Jr.99

◆ A beggar who goes fishing may use a worm which has feasted on a king as his bait. And the fisherman may eat the fish caught with that bait. What does this tells us? Well, it tells us that a king may progress through the guts of a pauper.

- John Marsden98

◆ The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.

- Stephen King98

◆ The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go

- Stephen King98

◆ [Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.

- Stephen King98

◆ He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.

- Stephen King98

◆ Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave him happiness and pride.

- Leo Tolstoy98

◆ He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands

- Stephen King98

◆ He was a heavy breather. You could hear him puffing and blowing into the mike up there like some large and sweaty animal. I don't like that, never have. My father is like that on the telephone. A lot of heavy breathing in your ear, so you can almost smell the scotch and Pall Malls on his breath. It always seems unsanitary and somehow homosexual.

- Richard Bachman98

◆ Somebody's been feeding the boy fables. Probably the king's niece. Humph. Nice girl. Too many romantic notions, though.

- Patrick W. Carr98

◆ ?If we do not know the King that comes to your bedroom for the sole purpose of taking out your trash, then you have yet to know Jesus as the Servant of All.

- Stuart Greaves98

◆ You've got a shitty habit, you know it? I've noticed it on all those TV drive-safely pitches that you do. You breathe in people's ears. You sound like a stallion in heat, Philbrick. That's a shitty habit. You also sound like you're reading off a teleprompter, even when you're not. You ought to take care of stuff like that. You might save a life.

- Richard Bachman98

◆ For this is what it means to be a king: to be first in every desperate attack and last in every desperate retreat, and when there's hunger in the land (as must be now and then in bad years) to wear finer clothes and laugh louder over a scantier meal than any man in your land.

- C.S. Lewis98

◆ I had a dream about you. The king decreed we could only speak one word, and that word would be assigned to us. Your word was hello, and my word was goodbye. You made me happy, and I made you sad. Or so I thought. Turns out you rather liked me telling you goodbye. You just wished I didn't keep saying it. You thought one time was good enough and that after that I should never speak to you again.

- Jarod Kintz98

◆ Sometimes a King has to do terrible things in order to protect those he has sworn to look after. When the stakes are so high, dreadful decisions have to be taken. It is the responsibility of a King to take on that burden, that guilt.

- Cressida Cowell98