Antonia Fraser Quotes

I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress.

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• Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Blue
  • Economy
  • Economic

• I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Father
  • Perfect
  • Heaven

• Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • You
  • Best
  • Doing

• Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Show
  • Office
  • Dignity

• I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Job
  • Decision
  • New York

• I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Great
  • Important
  • Think

• I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Good
  • American
  • Not Good Enough

• I love being from Wisconsin.

  

  Tanya Fischer
  • Love
  • Being
  • Wisconsin

• I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Destiny
  • Geography

• Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Responsibility
  • Special

• When you get a job on 'The Walking Dead' you imagine you're going to be running through the woods with a lot of weaponry shouting, 'Look out!'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Job
  • Running
  • Walking

• I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Said
  • Intelligent
  • Speech

• The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Book
  • Idea
  • Fiction

• Better, the perfect, easy discipline of the swallows dip and swoop, without east or west.

  

  Gary Snyder
  • Perfect
  • Discipline

• We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Men
  • Women
  • Mind

• He who doesn’t know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others’ successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Life
  • Alien

• I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Beautiful
  • Girl
  • Bored

• Yes, I realize when I'm reaching out to people and asking them to talk about the most traumatic thing to happen in their lives, I have to be really sensitive and thoughtful.

  

  Keith Maitland
  • People
  • Thoughtful

• Our cause is just . . . our country will be grateful.

  

  George Rogers Clark
  • Country
  • Grateful
  • Cause

• Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• My mother taught me how to apply my own makeup at 13 years old, and the most important lesson I learned is to never touch my eyebrows and to cleanse, tone, and moisturize twice a day.

  

  Emilia Clarke
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Makeup

• But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Behavior
  • Worried

• I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress.

  

  Antonia Fraser