R.K. King Quotes

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?

I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right.

He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.

The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.

A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.

Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.

There's always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to a bad start.

Eventually we will all wither and die in the wasteland of logic and science.

Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.

It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you’ll catch more flies, if nothing else.

I need to go to parties, Raisa mused, so I don't think so much.

A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas.

Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.

In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.

Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.

If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.

I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.

I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week - every Saturday night.

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.

The worst thing about touring is the travel.

My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.

Boys have said in the past that I live my life like a movie. I love all things romantic, like kissing in the rain.

If Richard Branson had worn a pair of steel-rimmed glasses, a double-breasted suit and shaved off his beard, I would have taken him seriously. As it was I couldn't . . .

I knew not to give the best of myself to the worst of people.

I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute

I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.

The simplest answer is to act.

But that's a side effect of alcohol, isn't it? Stopping to think about other people is not on the bar menu.

You know that saying about how you don't know what you have until it's gone-I already did know what I had, and now that she's gone, I know even more.

I place us where we are a happy couple who are madly in love, and we are kissing the way people kiss on their wedding day. With joy and relief and love. Without guilt. Without Shame.

Everybody's always looking for the person they're better than

Only you can allow yourself to be angry.

I grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.

I was a high school throw-out.

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party.

It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.

Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.

When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I'm going to have for dinner or I can't get through the day.

The non-violent movement seeks justice and reconciliation, not victory - or not just victory.