Constrain Quote by Hilary Mantel

“Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.”

Hilary Mantel

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings)

Constrain Endurance Fortitude Mean Patience Purpose Resilience Strength

More by Hilary Mantel

People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with.

Hilary Mantel

Image

“The hunter is among the most innocent of men; living in the moment makes him feel pure. When he returns in the evening, his body aches, his mind is full of pictures of leaves and sky; he does not want to read documents. His miseries, his perplexities have receded, and they will tay away, provided--after food and wine, laughter and…

Hilary Mantel

“But what would happen … I mean, what would be so awful … if they did meet up?” “Why, it would be like the…

Hilary Mantel

Image

When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when…

Hilary Mantel

Image

At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to…

Hilary Mantel

Image

“The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me. It…

Hilary Mantel

Image

“He wants to say, because Anne is not a carnal being, she is a calculating being, with a cold slick brain at work behind her hungry black eyes. "I believe any woman who can say no to the King of England and keep on saying it, has the wit to say no to any number of men, including you, including…

Hilary Mantel

“Come to that, don't pay out good money for horoscopes. If things are going to go badly for you, is that what you need…

Hilary Mantel

Image

“But my sins are my strength, he thinks; the sins I have done, that others have not even found the opportunity of committing. I…

Hilary Mantel

Image

Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.

Hilary Mantel

Image

“Mirabeau: “If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall leave our seats only at bayonet point. The King can cause us to be killed; tell him we all await death; but he need not hope that we shall separate until we have made the constitution.” Audible only…

Hilary Mantel

“Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she…

Hilary Mantel

Image

Explore all 559 Hilary Mantel quotes

More Constrain quotes

All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for…

John Stuart Mill

Image

Contrary to popular belief, we do not face a choice between economy and ecology, It is often said that protecting the environment would constrain…

Kofi Annan

Image

You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.

Marianne Williamson

Image

When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too must hurl ourselves against and through the literal and metaphorical concrete that contains and constrains us, that keeps us from talking about what is most important to us, that keeps us from living the way…

Derrick Jensen

We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide…

Eamon Duffy

Image

If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.

Immanuel Kant

Image

Ramp skating has become the most popular televised form of skating because they can constrain it. They can judge it based on what's happening…

Jeffrey Deitch

Image

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

Ted Malloch

Image

As matters now stand, the veto seems inappropriate, given the absence of any deep ideological split between major states, and definitely constrains the war-prevention mission of the UN. Similarly, the present permanent five are out of touch with geopolitical realities, and constitute a remnant of a West-centric world order, casting a shadow of illegitimacy across the activities of the most…

Richard A. Falk