#kings

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come. ↗

— Mika Waltari

#come #differ #dread #during #gods

Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#dylan #father #hour #kings #limits

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart? ↗

— Pablo Casals

#cunning #heart #his #indeed #machines

If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis. ↗

— Jim Courier

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #been #being

In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns on the heads of thieves, called kings. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#kings #priests #thieves #age

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them. ↗

— Charles James Fox

#cannot #govern #kings #only #popular

The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#active #eighty #feet #flesh #former

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings! ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#jesus #king #kings #may #terrors

Is Abundant Success in all his honest undertakings. ↗

— George Morgan

#his #honest #success #undertakings

The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. ↗

— James Shirley

#armour #blood #crooked #crown #death