Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.
Hilary Mantel
Quotes to Explore
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I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.
Illeana Douglas
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I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.
Haile Selassie
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California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
D. H. Lawrence
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The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
Kailash Satyarthi
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Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I've been having meetings with people, just everywhere in the world, and it's like, 'Hey, really love you to work with me, send me some ideas.' That's the crazy part.
Flume
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I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.
Olivia Wilde
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Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.
Barbara Kingsolver
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In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.
T. S. Eliot
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Pride and Vanity have built more Hospitals than all the Virtues together.
Vanity
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A prophet such as we could use again today,strong,zealous,angry and gloomy in opposition to the leaders,the masses indeed the whole world.(Letter to his pastor Julius Schubring ,1846 regarding Medelssohn's choral work 'Elijah' published that year)
Felix Mendelssohn
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I don't know if it's because I grew up in Beverly or my friends, but I listened to a lot of alternative rock music. I loved Incubus, Weezer and Jimmy Eat World. It almost felt segregated because I loved all of those acts over here, but then I also loved R&B and soul music I grew up with.
Jamila Woods
