Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
When I began to read as an adult, my first big enthusiasm was Evelyn Waugh. I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then I started getting more up to date.
Hilary Mantel
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I'm a mix of a 14-year-old high schooler and a 60-year-old guy. It can never fall into the 30s or the 40s. It has to be 100 percent 60 or 100 percent 14, no in between.
Kanye West
The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.
Umar
Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.
J. C. Ryle
And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.
Pablo Picasso
Such is the compassion, such the love which Mary bears us, that she is never tired of praying for us.
Alphonsus Liguori
I believe you can speak things into existence.
Jay-Z
Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.
J. C. Macaulay
I think one of the dirty little secrets that I try to reveal here is that Washington is not hopelessly divided. It's very interconnected. We're talking about people sort of feeding from the same insider trough, where if you are known as an insider, you are going to get paid and do very, very, very well.
Mark Leibovich
Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.
Og Mandino
Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.
Nadine Gordimer
Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering.
C. S. Lewis
As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
Lois McMaster
