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kings repose rise worship
Kings are like stars, - they rise and set, they have - The worship of the world, but no repose Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called. Richard Petty
kings should-have expectations
People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations. Rodney King
kings expecting
King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now. Robin Hobb
kings hatred conquer
A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears. Vittorio Alfieri
kings real pride
Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.
kings mean home
Stephen King says that if you forget an idea, then it can't have been any good. He means he, not you. You are not Stephen King. Do not attempt to emulate Stephen King at home. Warren Ellis
kings liberty fundamentals
That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. William Blackstone
kings children men
Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor. Vincent Price
power serious talking
He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power. Gary Gaetti
power women
With more women in power, the world would be better off. Sandra Tsing Loh
powerful war nuclear-disarmament
The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war" Alfonso G. Robles
powerful evil decision
You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision. Richard Dawkins
powerful google insane
This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante jovially. "It's not like you work for Google or anything. Richelle Mead
powerful political shadow
The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.
powerful hawaii territory
As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye. Troy Polamalu
powerful adventure self
The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion. Raymond Chandler
power earth passing
A power is passing from the earth. William Wordsworth
media people insulting
We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers. Robert Scheer
media order data
Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem! Roseanne Barr
media personality would-be
Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society. Zbigniew Brzezinski
media speaks-out scary
This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our lives in the wake of 9/11. Television promotes the world as a scary place for the United States and this justifies peeling away every element of privacy we had before. The media is monopolized so we don't even hear a lot of dissent about this new era. Sandra Cisneros
media people political
I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are. Zoe Saldana
media possibly worst
Our media is possibly the worst in the world. Tim Henman
media newspaper
If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. Mark Twain
media money
Incorruptibility by money is the old story, ... Now it's incorruptibility by media. Leon Wieseltier
media corporations needs
The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.