R.K. King Quotes

I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all.

The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.

I'll do almost anything for cake - even trample little children!

If we all just took a moment to be a little more thankful and kind to people, or smile at people, it could really change someone's day.

I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.

I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me.

In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp!

A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.

Although it's been said many times, many ways...Merry Christmas to you!

I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.

Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right.

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head.

Our children need our presence, not our presents.

That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.

Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.

Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.

We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, 'Love your enemies.' It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals.

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.

When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...

The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.

Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.

Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

If you think you've gone insane ... you're nuts.

Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.

Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Hold what you've got and hit them where you can.

I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.