B.B. King Quotes

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

I have never understood the Iowa caucus.

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing.

I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.

Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as the white keys.

Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.

We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.

The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.

O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Time and tide wait for no man.

People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.

May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!

I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.

The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.

Only in America can you find so many angry people claiming to love their country, while hating almost anyone in it.

First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead

Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.

The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.

If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever

You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.