Conn Iggulden Quotes

God giveth and God taketh away. Just be sure you’re present when he giveth – and somewhere else when he taketh it all back.

Conn Iggulden

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• Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Really
  • Immortality
  • Guess

• Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Mom
  • Bike
  • Never Forget

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Love
  • Character
  • Find

• Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Great
  • Alone
  • Losing

• Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Kind
  • Hair
  • Pink

• I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Goal
  • Win
  • Gold

• We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Model

• Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Good
  • Know
  • Understand

• There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Good
  • Best

• It's fun to just get out there and have a nice conversation when I'm running. To be honest, when I do longer runs, the trail that I like to run up in Malibu has mountain lions, so I always feel I want to run with someone else.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Running

• The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Fall
  • Hands
  • Arrogance

• I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Enjoy

• My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • She
  • Me
  • Play

• I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Happy
  • Marriage
  • Person

• That is something that my mother instilled in me at a very young age - to know my self-worth. And I have had times again and again in the fashion industry where all of that was tested and I rose to the occasion because I was told that I am worthy and I should be able to walk away from something that is not worthy of me.

  

  Iman
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Fashion

• The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Design

• Man thinks, God directs. [Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.]

  

  Alcuin
  • God
  • Thinks
  • Directs

• It would be too much for me to deal with to be sitting up there next to God, Bon Scott, Sid Vicious, and Jimi Hendrix, and hear somebody read my obituary from below: NIKKI SIXX DIED TODAY...FUCKING GOLFING.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • God
  • Obituary
  • Golfing

• My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • World
  • Better
  • Commitment

• God giveth and God taketh away. Just be sure you’re present when he giveth – and somewhere else when he taketh it all back.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • God
  • You
  • Present