Kate Williams Quotes

Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.

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• I always played to win.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Always
  • Win
  • Played

• God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Nature
  • Thoughts

• Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Life
  • Women
  • Peace

• You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Long
  • You
  • Nice

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Gaming

• I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Never

• Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Upside Down

• Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.

  

  Yves Behar
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Design

• It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Great
  • Home
  • Beautiful

• I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Peace

• I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Vanilla

• When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Work
  • Opinion
  • Start

• So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Happiness

• I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Bad
  • Light
  • Change

• There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Language
  • Colleagues
  • Racial

• The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Free
  • System
  • Capitalism

• Monogamy is desirable for many reasons, especially in creating a stable, emotionally connected home for children. But judging from centuries of human behavior, it is also a very difficult standard to meet.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Children
  • Home
  • Judging

• 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

• I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

  

  Ahmad Jamal

• The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.

  

  Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
  • Time
  • World
  • Technology

• But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.

  

  Miranda July
  • Like
  • Grow
  • Where

• Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Children
  • History
  • Throne