Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
Hilary Mantel
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
N. K. Jemisin
I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.
Maya Angelou
My favorite thing about motherhood is the outpouring of love that is non-judgmental and beautiful. My daughter just makes me happy, and she motivates me to be a kid again.
Christine Flores
If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee.
A. A. Milne
There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.
A. C. Benson
A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.
D. Todd Christofferson
The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray.
S. D Gordon
For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.
Saint Augustine
Some of my best friends are gay guys, and they said, "You're so straight, we're not interested."
Jon Bon Jovi
When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.
C. S. Lewis
I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.
Hunter Parrish
The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I'd have been lying!
Rene Magritte