Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells.

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• We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened... what harm is there in this?... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• Music was my one way to vent.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Way
  • Vent

• In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

  

  James MacGregor Burns
  • Life
  • Real
  • Advice

• As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.

  

  John Travolta
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Sometimes

• When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Pretty
  • Travel
  • Beauty

• Everything ends badly, otherwise it would not end.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Ends

• I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • American
  • President
  • Dead

• The problem isn't a Congress that won't cut spending or a president who won't raise taxes. The problem is an American public with a bottomless sense of entitlement to federal money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Money
  • American
  • Problem

• Faith begins where religious pretension ends.

  

  Austin Farrer
  • Faith
  • Religious
  • Ends

• The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Truth

• Everybody in my neighborhood in the '40s, they played pianos. That's how people partied. They didn't try the TV, the radio was OK, records was cool, but when people wanted to party, they got around a piano. My mother played piano, my sister played. I've been around a lot of piano all my life.

  

  Dr. John
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Progress

• Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • World
  • Home
  • Words

• The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Humanity
  • Task
  • Established

• First impressions are always unreliable.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • First
  • Impressions
  • Unreliable

• But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Music
  • Reflection
  • Checks

• I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Couple
  • Ends
  • Los Angeles

• If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.

  

  Warren G. Bennis
  • Giving
  • Leader
  • Fantasy

• I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Jokes
  • Affection
  • Racial

• Like everyone is either, "I grew up with it," or "I loved it," or loved them now. And when you watch The Muppet Movie now, it is so current. It's like The Simpsons before The Simpsons. It's not as cynical as The Simpsons would be but it's self-aware and there are a billion jokes, it breaks the fourth wall every five minutes, it's astounding, it's awesome. It's very exciting to be a part of that.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Wall
  • Break
  • Exciting

• I love mixing humor and terror, or humor and exhaustion, or even humor and despair. I'm dealing right now with a loved one with cancer, and she's of course sad, but also telling the most disturbingly morbid jokes and puns. I love that, there's so much humanity in being able to mock fate and hardship.

  

  Gail Simone
  • Humanity
  • Cancer
  • Loved

• It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Jokes