R.K. King Quotes

You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.

We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

There are times I think I am not sure of something which I absolutely know.

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

The process of nonviolence is one that takes time and those of us who've suffered, who've been persecuted over the years, would like to see things change, you know, overnight.

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

You must believe the unbelievable, snatch the possible out of the impossible.

The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.

You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand.

You don't get nothing from sleep but a dream.

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming out. Unless you're number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

Create your legacy, and pass the baton.

If you are a blackman in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a vidio camera. Don't rely on some passerby to film the beating. Rodney King was just lucky.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.

Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything.

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.

Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.

I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

Well, first let's say that the fundamental responsibility of any government is national security - in the preamble to the Constitution, provide for the common defense and insure domestic tranquility.

Kings and queens might do wicked things, but they don't nag. One thing I like about Bloody Mary: she never said a word about lung cancer.

My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.

I simply cannot vote for Senator Obama because he's not pro-life.

And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality.

We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.

You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.

That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.

If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.