Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.
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Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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While our military mission is narrowly focused on saving lives, we continue to pursue the broader goal of a Libya that belongs not to a dictator, but to its people.
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And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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I'm like Madonna: I keep reinventing myself.
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We are created in the image of our heavenly parents; we are God's spirit children. Therefore, we have a vast capacity for love - it is part of our spiritual heritage.
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I have no desire to look at myself.
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I think that women's lives are multilayered.
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A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.
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However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.
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Maybe the restaurants could change the rules to allow smoking only at night when it becomes more of a bar setting.
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A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.
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I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.
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I really try to live my life a little more, in ways I would hold back from previously.
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While we try to amass wealth, make piles of money, get hold of the land as our real property, overtop one another in riches, we have palpably cast off justice, and lost the common good. I should like to know how any man can be just, who is deliberately aiming to get out of someone else what he wants for himself.
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Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.
