Thinker Comparison

Donald Trump vs. Stephen King

Read 20 entries attributed to Donald Trump alongside 20 attributed to Stephen King. Compare the wording and topic labels.

Shared topic labels:
knowledge
time
mind
philosophy

This page places 20 entries attributed to Donald Trump alongside 20 attributed to Stephen King. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.

Topic labels present in both displayed selections: knowledge, time, mind, philosophy. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.

Attributed to Donald Trump, entry #54769: "We're not entering a dark winter, we are entering the final turn and the light at the end of the tunnel"

Attributed to Stephen King, entry #1743: "Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him…"

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Donald Trump

1945

Politics
United States
971 quotes

Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.

"We're not entering a dark winter, we are entering the final turn and the light at the end of the tunnel"

#success

"People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?"

#knowledge

"The national debt has doubled. And you know the bad part about that? You think if the national debt has doubled, our infrastructure would be great, our count…"

#knowledge

"When a Secretary of State illegally stores her emails on a private server, deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities can't see her crime, puts our country at…"

#knowledge

"In many cases, I probably identify more as Democrat. It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans. Now, it shouldn't b…"

#justice

"Well, er, it wasn't, er, it wasn't very stupid, I can tell you that."

#language

"I think I am actually humble. I think I'm much more humble than you would understand."

#knowledge

"It's time to shake the rust off America's foreign policy."

#time

"Well look he's from Texas -- to the best of my knowledge, there's a lot of oil in Texas, right? So, he gets a lot of money from the oil companies, and he's a…"

#knowledge

"We've let our rivals and challengers think they can get away with anything, and they do... If President Obama's goal had been to weaken America, he could not…"

#mind

"I love all people, rich or poor, but in those particular positions I just don't want a poor person."

#money

"They're trying to scare everybody, from meetings, cancel the meetings, close the schools—you know, destroy the country. And that's okay, as long as we can wi…"

#knowledge

"All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected."

#humor

"Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers. We are …"

#friendship

"They have put political correctness above common sense, above your safety, and above all else. I refuse to be politically correct."

#politics

"We're thinking about building the wall as a solar wall, so it creates energy, and pays for itself. And this way Mexico will have to pay much less money, and …"

#mind

"Look, when I go to rallies, they turn around, they start screaming at CNN. They want to throw their placards at CNN. You know. I think you would do much bett…"

#philosophy

"Bye bye. Look, see? He's smiling. See, he's having a good time. Oh, I love the old days, you know? You know what I hate? There's a guy, totally disruptive, t…"

#time

"My goal is always again to bring people together. But if I'm forced to fight for something I really care about, I will never, ever back down and our country …"

#friendship

"These are people that are outside the country, so we're really not talking about the Constitution. And it's not about religion. This is about safety. This ha…"

#religion
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Stephen King

1986

Literature
United States
228 quotes

Stephen Edwin King is an American author. Dubbed the "King of Horror", he is widely known for his horror novels and has also explored other genres, among them suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery. Though known primarily for his novels, he has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in collections.

"Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and …"

#love

"Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mun…"

#love

"love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to…"

#love

"For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they und…"

#love

"No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves."

#life

"Alice had managed to get herself back under some sort of control, but it was thin. Thin enough to read a newspaper through, his bingo-playing mother might ha…"

#power

"What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane."

#knowledge

"Worlds sometimes shudder and turn inside their axes, and this was such a time. Flagg felt it, but did not grasp it. The salvation of all that is good is only…"

#philosophy

"You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you."

#family

"I don't think time matters much if you're a Breaker."

#time

"Arnie didn't say a lot more, but a kid I knew named Randy Turner was there, and he filled me in on what happened in more detail after school had started agai…"

#death

"My dad has hated me for as long as I can remember. That's a pretty sweeping statement, and I know how phony it sounds. It sounds petulant and really fantasti…"

#time

"Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark."

#family

"Go down, Jack. Get them and I'll take the cancer away. Oh, but right now he had more immediate concerns, didn't he? He was swelling up like a waterlogged spo…"

#life

"Luke had to use all his willpower to keep from drinking the whole sixteen-ounce bottle of water at a single go. He left a quarter of it, set it down, then sn…"

#life

"In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts."

#mind

"The fears of children were simpler and usually more powerful. The fears of children could often be summoned up in a single face... and if bait were needed, w…"

#power

"No, of course victims of high-gamma radiation didn't turn transparent, like Claude Rains in The Invisible Man. They didn't start to lose inches as their bodi…"

#life

"I don't think there was anything in my brain right then except the usual background static -- the kind you get on your radio when it's turned up all the way …"

#mind

"Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret."

#death
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