B.B. King Quotes

This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.

The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few.

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.

We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.

I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

Opportunity is the greatest charity.

I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement.

No one can take it away from you.

Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.

Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.

You only need a heart full of grace

Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.

What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.

If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.

It's a very worthy cause. This should happen, and I do believe that tenacity counts. Not going away matters.

We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.

Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.

I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I truly can be; but praise God, I'm not the man I once was

He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'

Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.

Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.

To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough.

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.