R.K. King Quotes

Cold start is a hard start.

I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn't quite of the real world.

My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie.

God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.

When you ask me what I'm afraid of, I'd say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance or some sort of supernatural being, but it doesn't scare me as it scared me when I was a child.

I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time.

I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in their own mind.

Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.

Muslims are a part of the fabric of this country. By the way, they always have been, and more so now than ever.

Earl Nightingale never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn, pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.

The solution really has to lie within the Iraqi people.

I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built.

Every Republican that I know of ran on the full repeal of Obamacare...The voters have spoken.

I think if you serve under John Kelly your morale is going to be good.

It would probably be a direct order, shape up your morale. And so he understands command. He understands how to delegate. And I think that [General John Kelly] will bring law and order.

If I listen to a campaign promises, I would expect that on the first day [Donald Trump] would cancel all of the DACA documents out there that President [Barack] Obama unconstitutionally issued.

Jesus didn't teach people to kill.

How can we be so confident that we are correct about the religion of Islam that it is really different in this insidious way and people 50 years from now, people aren't going to back on.

I've spent a fair amount of time down at the worlder. I've been down there and helped arrest people that are smuggling drugs in.

Anybody that brings up amnesty in this Congress, we need to just take the scarlet 'A' for amnesty and pin it on them.

It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science.

Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.

The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the ash pours out moans of thrilling anguish.

In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death penalty here

It sends the signal that you can kill and walk away and not face the kind of justice that you ought to pay for those kinds of acts.

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we won, they lost.

...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.

We can all get more together than we can apart. And this is the way we gain power. Power is the ability to achieve purpose, power is the ability to effect change, and we need power.

I cannot hate any man!

Nothing worthwhile is gained without sacrifice.

All labor has dignity.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.

Get busy living or get busy dying.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

the time is always right to do the right thing

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

Am I weird?""Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.

Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Oh shit, the mummy's after us, let's all walk a little faster

Words have weight.

You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there’s always a bloody show.

Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.

The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary