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kings writing men
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon. Charles Caleb Colton
kings two feet
Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.
kings passion people
Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from the vices, no less than the virtues of Kings.
kings dinner might
The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.
kings winning long
It has been well said that if a great king should bring us a great heap of gold, and bid us take as much as we could count in a day, we should make a long day of it; but to win souls is far nobler work. How is it that we so soon withdraw from it? Charles Spurgeon
kings garden sweat
See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls than even Eden's luscious fruits. There the mischief of the serpent in the first garden was undone: there the curse was lifted from earth, and borne by the woman's promised seed.
kings together may
You and your sins must separate or you and your God will never come together. No one sin may keep you; they must all be given up, they must be brought out like Canaanite kings from the cave and be hanged up in the sun.
kings sheep black
I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family. Alan Moore
kings dark blow
Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t’was his intent To blow up the King and Parli’ment. Three-score barrels of powder below To prove old England’s overthrow; By God’s providence he was catch’d With a dark lantern and burning match. Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring. Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
cynical kind easy
It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set. Benedict Cumberbatch
cynical want sides
'Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants. Bill Mauldin
cynical life-is worst
The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete. Carlos Santana
cynical faults excuse
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. Benjamin Franklin
cynical groups kids worked
American kids are more cynical than any other groups of kids I've worked with. Rosalind Wiseman
cynical distract effort fact fairly florida issue process public treated voters
It's a fairly cynical effort on his part to distract the public from what's really the issue and that's the fact that the redistricting process in Florida is broken, and voters aren't being treated fairly. Ben Wilcox
cynical industry music woke
It was a shock, yes, and it really woke me up to how cynical the music industry was,
cynical extremely volatile
a very cynical and willful manipulation of an extremely volatile situation. Hanan Ashrawi
cynical despairing full hurt music sad wound
So why must it wound him that the most despairing music is full of beauty? Why must it hurt him and make him cynical and sad and untrusting? Anne Rice
democracy speech committees
Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work. Alan Bullock
democracy public-opinion input
Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it]. Alan Blinder
democracy
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. Al Smith
democracy journalism organized
I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth. David Brock
democracy ends
Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning. Benazir Bhutto
democracy remarkable satirist
Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor. Bill Moyers
democracy denied
Democracy derailed is democracy denied. Chaka Fattah
democracy earth action
For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament. Bob Brown
democracy faulty forms lines poll untrained voting workers
There is no place in our democracy for faulty voting equipment, long lines at the polls, untrained poll workers and any forms of chads, Donna Brazile