R.K. King Quotes

Time heals all wounds.

Time's the thief of memory

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

We must use time creatively.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.

Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.

I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.

Sports are a microcosm of society.

Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You... you fill me up.

I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a... I'm just screaming all over the place with joy.

America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are not held in great sections of America.

The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope... Like a lover with their love.

Money is necessary -- both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.

Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that's when you're cooking.

Doubters will doubt to the end.

To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.

Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.

Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.

If you see your brother about to be harmed and somebody is doing something, you must speak out. It takes courage to do that. Then you have to come out of yourself to do that.

History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.

Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.

The truth is in the details.

Successful rebellions always begin in secret.

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible.

We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.

And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.

Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.

You've got to change with the public's taste.