David Cannadine Quotes

#1. I had the nightmare when I was like nine or ten or something, I always remembered pieces of that nightmare, the feeling from it. I've always wanted to make a horror film and so I always kept thinking about that nightmare.

David Robert Mitchell

#2. For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind of a stranger; there is hardly a detail of life that does not in some degree betray it'.

David Cannadine

#3. I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.

Nancy Farmer

#4. God, youth is a terrible time! So much feeling and so little notion of how to handle it!

Robertson Davies

#5. I loved my wounds, not because they hurt but because they were like a gun in my pocket. They gave me a power that no one knew I had.

Supervert

#6. On several occasions, we are informed that the professional ideal 'took steps', 'organised assaults', and 'selected social problems'. But this is anthropomorphic metaphor implausibly masquerading as historical explanation.

David Cannadine

#7. He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.

Nick Harkaway

#8. An autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live.

Phyllis Rose

#9. I love to wear red lipstick a lot, even in the daytime.

Heather Morris

#10. I'm talking about other kinds of hunger. Desire.

Paul Russell

#11. There will come a day when a person would be willing to give everything they ever loved, everything they ever owned, everything they ever chased in this life, everything between the heavens and earth ... just for the chance to come back here and make just one sajdah (prostration). Just one.

Yasmin Mogahed

#12. I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.

Marianne Williamson

#13. If people get together, so eventually will nations.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#14. Vernon Bogdanor's account The Monarchy and the Constitution is written as much in the shadow of Edmund Burke as it is of Walter Bagehot. He stresses the organic development of the British constitution, prefers evolution to revolution, and thinks stability is better than strife.

David Cannadine

#15. He was, albeit only briefly, the hero of the world's hopes.

David Cannadine

#16. Life is full of things that can kill me, you vampire m*****f****r, and you sure as shit can just get in line!
Dr. Adin Tredeger

Z.A. Maxfield

#17. In Las Vegas, people seem to believe, the prosperity spawned by tourism and gaming can make them whole, financially and spiritually. Las Vegas now melds fun, work, and wealth, showing a path toward the brightest vistas of the post-industrial world. It is the first city of the twenty-first century.

Hal Rothman

#18. Prince Charles's concern for the underprivileged and disadvantaged has not exactly endeared him to the Conservative Central Office. As Norman Tebbit replied, it is not surprising that the Prince is so sympathetic towards the unemployed: he is by way of being one of them himself.

David Cannadine

#19. Humble enough to prepare, confident enough to perform.

Tom Coughlin