King Shrewd Quotes & Sayings

You can't hammer in a nail with words ... "
"No, but you can start a war with them. — Ben Galley

Men who are thoroughly false and hollow, seldom try to hide those vices from themselves; and yet in the very act of avowing them, they lay claim to the virtues they feign most to despise. 'For,' say they, 'this is honesty, this is truth. All mankind are like us, but they have not the candour to avow it.' The more they affect to deny the existence of any sincerity in the world, the more they would be thought to possess it in its boldest shape; and this is an unconscious compliment to Truth on the part of these philosophers, which will turn the laugh against them to the Day of Judgment. — Charles Dickens

The fundamental steps of expansion that will open a person, over time, to the full flowering of his or her individuality are the same for both genders. But men and women are rarely in the same place struggling with the same questions at the same age. — Gail Sheehy

Most of us are living at a pace that is not only unsustainable; it's also unbiblical. — Craig Groeschel

I look cooking! Particularly pad thai. — Tom Weston-Jones

Foreshadowing is like playing cat and mouse. If done properly, it can be used to compel the reader to read on. — Mary Sage Nguyen

King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now. — Robin Hobb

I had been reading about [John] Calvin for years and had been studying the English Renaissance for many more years, and it had never occurred to me to think of them together. I learned that Calvin was the most widely read writer in England in Shakespeare's lifetime. He was translated and published in many editions. — Marilynne Robinson

If you love what you do, it isn't your job, it is your love affair. — Debasish Mridha

If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be consumed for their sensual gratification; and thus they will destroy in their lust for enjoyment the property of future generations, of their own contemporaries, and indeed their very own capital: — Russell Kirk

Hers were the pale gray that made you think of nightfall and silver bullets and the edge of winter. The color that filled the sky before it was torn in half by lightening. — Jodi Picoult

I change my thoughts, I change my world. — Norman Vincent Peale

When we lift someone else's load, we add color not only to our lives but to the lives of others as well. — Emilie Barnes

all we have is faith and hope and you just have to trust it. — S.D. Hendrickson