David Starkey Quotes

I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.

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• There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • Good
  • Power

• The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • People
  • Help
  • Challenge

• I started cooking out of middle school depression.

  

  Zac Posen
  • School
  • Cooking
  • Depression

• In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Question
  • Dating
  • Take

• Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Life
  • Character
  • Day

• I am most attached to my mother, who always travels with me when I am on an outdoor location or abroad. She is my friend, who I share everything with.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Mother
  • Friend
  • Attached

• We think of bitcoin as mobile. It's not one company; it's broad.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Think
  • Company
  • Bitcoin

• At heart, I'm a relationship guy, but my adventurous side makes it hard. I hope I'll find a balance.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Guy

• I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.

  

  Diana Ross
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Time
  • Hope
  • House

• Whatever results you get, learn and grow from it and move on to the next one.

  

  Dabo Swinney

• Touching his hair, she leaned hesitantly forward, and he folded his arms around her, sinking into sensation again as they kissed--the slight weight of her on his lap, the smell of her. He glided his hands up the warm dip of her spine, felt her shiver and press closer. He could never get enough of this. Never.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Up
  • She
  • Hair

• I think writing about the time in Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think it brought back to me how very difficult it is.So much is expected of you as you become a woman, and often you are asked to sacrifice parts of you in becoming a girl, I would say. Hermione doesn’t.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Time
  • Writing

• I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Weight
  • Pockets
  • Tangled

• What makes a scientist great is the care that he takes in telling you what is wrong with his results, so that you will not misuse them.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Great

• Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Journey

• Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

  

  Elizabeth Moon
  • Character
  • Struggle
  • Chance

• Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.

  

  Plutarch
  • Wisdom
  • Courage
  • Rarities

• True gastronomy is making the most of what is available, however modest.

  

  Claudia Roden
  • Available
  • Modest
  • Gastronomy

• You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Share
  • Kings
  • Jokes

• It is incredibly daunting to take on a live-action story. I think that it adds a level of complexity to the responsibility that goes beyond what I've experienced on these two films (The Lorax and Horton Hears a Who).

  

  Christopher Meledandri
  • Thinking
  • Action
  • Responsibility

• I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.

  

  David Starkey
  • Kings
  • Modest
  • Propositions