Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography.
Hilary Mantel
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
Hanneli Mustaparta
Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.
Vanessa Marcil
I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.
Leopold Kronecker
I look back to the Great Depression, and what Roosevelt was able to do in very difficult times, to get Social Security through back in the time when it was seen as - well, it wasn't what it is today. It was sort of a last-ditch, if you really need it, you got it, but, today, it's much more a part of your retirement program.
Chris Matthews
Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.
Robert Falcon Scott
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Tom Stoppard
I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.
Yayoi Kusama
The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.
J. D. Trout
It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.
Lao Tzu
Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
Miguel de Cervantes
When I look into the eyes of an animal I do not see an animal. I see a living being. I see a friend. I fell a soul.
Anthony Douglas Williams
An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system.
Eugene Ionesco
Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.
Tony Evans
Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.
Amby Burfoot
We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and body, with phosphorescent light, brighten the chasm that separates us. We should cling to them just as blood is thicker than water.
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.
Edward Hallett Carr
Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell the real story behind civilized life. How people were taxed, who was taxed, and what was taxed tell more about a society than anything else. Tax habits could be to civilization what sex habits are to personality. They are basic clues to the way a society behaves.
Charles Adams
