Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws.

Hilary Mantel

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• There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • Good
  • Power

• I'd say I am more of a comfort person. I have Adidas sneakers that are my favorite thing on the planet. Adidas high tops with black jeans and a fur hat that I love wearing. I love vintage shopping.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Person
  • Comfort
  • Favorite

• I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Different
  • Think
  • Environment

• Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Energy
  • Yourself
  • Boat

• I don't care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Work
  • Real
  • Care

• Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.

  

  W. E. B. Griffin
  • Men
  • Body
  • Discipline

• Now if you ask me, in conclusion, "Well, what, then should properly be done?" Obviously war, but I mean in regard to this issue I would say: Any way possible permission should be refused and if they go ahead and build it, the government should bomb it out of existence, evacuating it first, with no compensation to any of the property owners involved in this monstrosity.

  

  Leonard Peikoff
  • Done
  • War
  • Conclusion

• I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Work
  • Great
  • Friends

• Whatever results you get, learn and grow from it and move on to the next one.

  

  Dabo Swinney

• All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • Truth
  • Lying
  • Order

• In the end, most women get the type of man they dress for.

  

  Tad R. Callister
  • Men
  • Women
  • Ends

• I want to be surrounded by women, I want to be snuggled and cuddled and pampered.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Women
  • Want
  • Pampered

• I wouldn't know where to start." "He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to." "Thoreau?" "Harry Emerson Fosdick.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Beginning
  • Road
  • Knows

• Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

  

  Elizabeth Moon
  • Character
  • Struggle
  • Chance

• The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Bad

• However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • May
  • Looks
  • Tribes

• She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Gone
  • Relief

• We share a lot in common, attitude wise.

  

  Alex Riley
  • Wise
  • Attitude
  • Common

• You have to write a book because you believe it has helped you, because you believe it has helped others personally and you are dying to share with it others because you know it will add value to their lives. You write it for them like a gift. You don't want anything from them. You don't want them to do anything for you. You don't even care if they all share the book with their friends, they don't all have to buy them. You're just dying to share this idea with people. Your challenge is to write it in a way that is compelling, enjoyable to read so that they will get the idea.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Believe
  • Writing

• The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.

  

  Confucius
  • Satisfied
  • Distress
  • Superior Man

• Alcohol does kill brain cells, because you've lost it.

  

  Paul Michael Levesque
  • Lost
  • Brain
  • Alcohol

• You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws.

  

  Hilary Mantel
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