William the Silent Quotes

I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.

William the Silent

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• Freedom
• Conscience
• Monarchs

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• I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.

  

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• If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
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• What people don't realize is that Tinder built a brand on more than the experience of the swipe.

  

  Sam Yagan
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• It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
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• It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • True
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• To lead people walk behind them.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Walk
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• Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • England
  • Recognized

• I'm one of those people who really liked high school. I know that might not be a popular thing to say, but it was fun, and I enjoyed my friends.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • School
  • Friends

• When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I'm typically a 'just drink water' kind of guy. I was a bodybuilder in high school, so I used to - food to me was, 'there are this many grams of carbohydrates and proteins, and I need these micronutrients in order to grow and be fit,' and I ate in order to live and not live in order to eat, and I think most people are the opposite.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Live
  • School

• So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • People
  • Politics
  • Literature

• I hope to have more than one main weapon. I have the Phenomenal Forearm as we're calling it now, the Calf Crusher - the Styles Clash is still available. I like to have a lot of alternative moves to hit people with, and whatever seems to work is what I'll go with.

  

  A.J. Styles
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• I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • People
  • Experience
  • Movies

• The idea that working a blue-collar job and living in a working-class community provides barriers that are unique to your circumstances - that's not a very controversial subject anymore. I think it's something that people on both the Left and the Right probably accept.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Job
  • Community

• I want to plug back into the hip-hop audience. Whether it be fans who grew up watching 'Yo!', or people who have become familiar with the culture via the Internet.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • People
  • Up
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• I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • People
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  • Work

• In the case of the Web, each of us has slightly more access to a mass audience - a few more people slide through the door - but Facebook is finally a crude, personal multimedia conglomerate machine, personal nation-state machine, reality-show machine. New gadgets alter social patterns, new media eclipse old ones, but the pyramid never goes away.

  

  David Shields
  • People
  • Reality
  • Door

• The heart of a man is like deep water.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Heart
  • Water
  • Deep

• When I was growing up, because I was a bit overweight and boyish, I thought I wasn't attractive to the opposite sex, but I have since met lads from my school who said I just seemed unapproachable.

  

  Maxine Peake
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • People
  • Work
  • Beauty

• I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.

  

  William the Silent
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Conscience