"Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It……" — Hilary Mantel
"Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you."
—
Hilary Mantel
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
109 Quotes by Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel has 109 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
-
When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make…
-
There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense…
-
A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
-
Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a…
-
Beneath every history, another history.
-
Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
-
I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would…
-
He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains…
-
Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.
-
A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges…
-
And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a…
See all 109 quotes by Hilary Mantel »
More Constrain Quotes
This quote is filed under Constrain Quotes,
one of 45 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Soloing is the most beautiful way of climbing; no material constrains, just you and the rock, the sun, nature; a…
— Alain Robert
-
Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
-
To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard…
— Thomas Jefferson
-
The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
-
Contrary to popular belief, we do not face a choice between economy and ecology, It is often said that protecting…
— Kofi Annan
-
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain…
— Henry David Thoreau
-
In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot…
— Hyman Minsky
-
Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
-
It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even…
— Karl Jaspers
-
Through developing trusting and respectful relationships with the boys in our lives, we can help boys to value and acknowledge…
— Judy Chu
-
To be human, at the most profound level, is to encounter honestly the inescapable circumstances that constrain us, yet muster…
— Cornel West
-
If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you;…
— George Whitefield
See all 45 Constrain Quotes »