Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.

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• Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Experience
  • Ideas

• Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • Different
  • High

• What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Pain
  • Healing

• I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Way
  • Day
  • Actor

• There was great comraderie among players and coaches. We enjoyed the time we were together... road trips were fun. I don't know that there was one moment that stood out among all the good times we had.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Best

• My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• Planned Parenthood has a large target on its back.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Back
  • Target
  • Planned

• I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Words
  • Reading

• Good people all, with one acord,Lament for Madame Blaize,Who never wanted a good word —From those who spoke her praise.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • People
  • Good

• The panel put targets, for example, on nutrition, education, ending preventable child deaths, encouraging birth registration, putting an end to violence against girls, and child marriage - all of which, if enacted, will improve the lives of billions of children throughout the world.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Children
  • Education

• The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Fire
  • Enemy

• I have friends that tease me about 'Without a Trace;' they say, 'You're really good at saying, 'Have you seen this person?'

  

  Eric Close
  • Good
  • Friends

• I wasn't a great student, but I was interested in this theater thing, and I could spend hours in the library researching why the cuffs in the 18th century had four buttons. It was my handle.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Great
  • Why
  • Library

• Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• I like eggs. My favorite way of cooking eggs is old school French.

  

  David Chang
  • School
  • Cooking

• One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.

  

  James Sinegal
  • Children
  • School
  • Strong

• Oils have the most wonderful effect on the complexion due to their high affinity with the skin.

  Jacqueline Fernandez
  • High

• I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in love with all life holds, joyful or sorrowful--is fulfillment. The fullness of life is open to all of us.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Life
  • Live
  • Struggle

• I think it was very important for me to look at starting to build a safety net so that I didn't feel the insecurity of the ups and downs of finances because I might do no film a year, or I might do six commercials, or I might do none.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • Important
  • Safety
  • Insecurity

• Dark circles are my charisma though.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Dark
  • Circles
  • Charisma

• Nature loves simplicity and unity.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Nature
  • Simplicity
  • Loves

• Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Mean
  • Dark
  • Safety