Kings Quotes - Page 6

• Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King and, faced with the choice to acquiesce or resist, took less than three hours to make her decision, knowing it might be mortal.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Hero, Knowing, Choices

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• We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!

  John Adams

  Bible, God, Religious

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• Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: "The king is dead, long live the king", in order to make it understood that despotism is immortal! Now an entire people, moved by a sublime instinct, cried: Long live the Republic! to teach the universe that tyranny died with the tyrant.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Order, Tyrants, Long

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• Christians are beginning to lose the spirit of intolerance which animated them: experience has shown the error of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and of the persecution of those Christians in France whose belief differed a little from that of the king. They have realized that zeal for the advancement of religion is different from a due attachment to it; and that in order to love it and fulfil its behests, it is not necessary to hate and persecute those who are opposed to it.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Christian, Hate, Errors

  "Persian Letters" by Baron de Montesquieu, Letter No. 60, 1721.

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• Ulysses is son to Laertes, but he is father to Telemachus, husband to Penelope, lover of Calypso, companion in arms of the Greek warriors around Troy, and King of Ithaca. He was subjected to many trials, but with wisdom and courage came through them all.... he is a complete man as well, a good man.

  James Joyce

  Husband, Father, Son

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• A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Giving, Islam

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• The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Art, Selfish, Desire

  Ludwig van Beethoven (1905). “Beethoven, the man and the artist: as revealed in his own words”

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• Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Brother, Son

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• When people were conscious of a God whose character was moral law, when their consciences were informed by a sense of rightness, their watchmen would shout halt when they trespassed the law. Now their watchmen are silent. They serve no king and protect no kingdom.

  James W. Sire

  Character, Law, People

  James W. Sire (2011). “The Universe Next Door (Large Print 16pt)”, p.152, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.

  Irving Chernev

  Queens, Men, Bishops

  Irving Chernev (2014). “The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 masterly games of chess strategy”, p.110, Pavilion Books

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• To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

  William Hazlitt

  Acting, Beggar, Marrow

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• Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Mind, Sacred

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• I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white.

  Muhammad Ali

  White, Curious, Jungle

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of organized religion, you will discover that it endorsed slavery and quoted the Bible to approve it; the Pope even owned slaves.

  John Shelby Spong

  People, Church, Slavery

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated and riots broke out in the city. We celebrated Palm Sunday on 14th Street. I have a memory of walking down the street with buildings smoldering, and soldiers and cops everywhere. Anyways, it [St. Stephen’s] was a church that really taught me the things I needed to learn to not go to church. But I think it is a church that does great work, I went to a wedding there three days ago.

  Ian MacKaye

  Memories, Sunday, Thinking

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I live in New York City, where, if you're in a movie at a popular independent theater, you think you're king of the world, because you're in a bubble. So there's no way for me to properly conceive of the attention that the movie gets in a way that doesn't make me confused.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  New York, Confused, Independent

  "Jesse Eisenberg explains why he hates watching his own movies". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. March 31, 2016.

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• I know people who have donated big to presidents. I know people who have raised money big for presidents. And they are treated like kings by the politician and his organization. They are constantly invited to parties, seminars, private gatherings where the candidate or the president will explain policy, but only to them. And they brag about it. Which is fine. That doesn't bother me.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Organization, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• My favorite species to study would be Cobras and King Cobras which are two different families. They're very intelligent, and they're beautiful looking animals. Where they come from are countries and regions which I spend a lot of time in - South East Asia and India, those are places I go to fairly often, and so the cobras are my main interest. It's not a snake I can maintain, but when I see them in zoos and what not, I find them interesting.

  Henry Rollins

  Beautiful, Country, Zoos

  "Henry Rollins and a Whole Lot of Snakes". Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. April 29, 2011.

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• The other cool thing is, even with Jessica [Johnson], or Daredevil, I had taken a break from those characters for a while in the comics, so I can enjoy the shows without the agita. I completely love the Daredevil show. I feel no physical connection to it, because it was 10 years ago since I wrote that comic, so I can just enjoy it. And when people connect it in a positive way to me, I go, "Well, that's very f - king flattering!"

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Taken, Character, Years

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• Jeph (Loeb) will call me with updates, and I'll go, "Are you f--king with me?" I never saw this coming, and certainly never saw it coming while I was still coherent and in the game. That's the difference between me and the previous generations. (Legendary X-Men writer) Chris Claremont had to wait decades before his s - t was on the screen.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Men, Games, Differences

  "Jessica Jones’ creator on the biggest change from comics to her Netflix show". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. June 29, 2016.

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• I was a 12 year old kid in Northern Idaho listening to Billie Holiday and Lena Horne and Sarah Vaughan and Nat King Cole. This whole genre of music is a part of who I am.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Holiday, Kids, Years

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

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• You see Martin Luther King is dead and Huey Newton is not. And Malcolm X is dead and Bobby Seale is not. And Vernon Jordan was shot. The thing that revolutionaries, or even people who want to claim they're revolutionaries, often forget is that it doesn't make no difference what kind of wardrobe you wear, and if you speak up about Black people doing better you just risked your life.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Differences, People, Black

  Source: agitpropspace.org

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• In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.

  Shane Claiborne

  Guy, Use, Speak

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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• God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest or a prostitute, a Republican or a Democrat.

  Shane Claiborne

  President, Use, Republican

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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• It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jobs, Church, Drs

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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