"At school, up to the age of sixteen,……" — Alison Weir
"At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history."
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9 Quotes by Alison Weir
Alison Weir has 9 quotes on this site.
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I prefer to be left alone with my books.
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You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none
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If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to…
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I cannot go with you all the way on your journey, but I would go as far as I might
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I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.
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In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of…
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Many people have told me that my books read like novels. Perhaps this is because, when I write, I feel…
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History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.
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More Acts Quotes
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
— Sai Baba
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
— Philip James Bailey
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
— Bernard Baruch
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
— Joseph Addison
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long…
— Alfred Adler
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
— William Blake
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Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of…
— John Boehner
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