Robin Hobb book Royal Assassin
Variant: Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own.
Wolves have no kings
Source: Royal Assassin
Source: Royal Assassin
Robin Hobb book Royal Assassin
Variant: Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own.
Wolves have no kings
Source: Royal Assassin
“He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.”
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author
Source: His Last Bow: 8 Stories
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1917–2008) Inventor of Transcendental Meditation, musician
Quoted from Larry King Weekend, Interview With Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (2002-05-12) http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/12/lklw.00.html
Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603) Queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until 1603
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury (1588)
Context: I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm.
“Strepsiades: Whirl is King, having driven out Zeus.”
tr. in Lippmann 1929, p. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=-E4WFG-G30sC&pg=PA1 and 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=-E4WFG-G30sC&pg=PA4 <br class="br">Clouds, line 828 <br class="br">Clouds (423 BC)
Hugo Chávez (1954–2013) 48th President of Venezuela
Hugo Chávez criticizes George W. Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina, during a cabinet meeting broadcast live on television (August 31, 2005). http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9150860/ <br class="br">2005
“I have eaten many strange things, but have never eaten the heart of a king.”
William Buckland (1784–1856) English clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist
As quoted in The Violinist's Thumb 2012 by Sam Kean, p. 233
Dubious
“Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.”
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World Revisited
Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 6 (pp. 52-53)
“In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.”
James Frazer book The Golden Bough
Source: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 6, Magicians as Kings.
“No love have they for the slain king; swiftly they hie them to the mountains and the forests.”
Nullus adempti
regis amor: montem celeres silvamque capessunt.
Gaius Valerius Flaccus book Argonautica
Source: Argonautica, Book IV, Lines 315–316