Diarmaid Macculloch Quotes

#1. People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.

Stephen Rea

#2. a watched pot never boils.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#3. There is no surer basis for fanaticism than bad history, which is invariably history oversimplified.

Diarmaid MacCulloch

#4. Calvin had a talent for inventing abusive nicknames and he styled this amorphous opposition 'Libertines', which had a conveniently scandalous resonance, while also reflecting the undoubted fact that his opponents sought a freedom for which he saw no need.

Diarmaid MacCulloch

#5. I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion.

John Campbell Shairp

#7. Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.

James Cook

#8. In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.

Billy Corgan

#9. Meanwhile, in a final insult of fate, the Queen and Cardinal Pole died on the same day in November 1558, Pole the victim of an exceptionally vicious influenza epidemic.

Diarmaid MacCulloch

#10. Between our two lives
there is also the life of
the cherry blossom.

Matsuo Basho

#11. Human societies are based on the human tendency to want things, and are geared to satisfying those wants: possessions or facilities to bring ease and personal satisfaction. The results are frequently disappointing, and always terminate in the embarrassing non sequitur of death.

Diarmaid MacCulloch

#12. Directing for me is the ability to take the words from a page and share my vision with the world.

Denzel Whitaker

#13. Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Charles M. Schulz

#14. I was brought up in the presence of the Bible, and I remember with affection what it was like to hold a dogmatic position on the statements of Christian belief. I would now describe myself as a candid friend of Christianity

Diarmaid MacCulloch

#15. The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.

Kevin Spacey

#16. when John Locke published his celebrated Letters concerning toleration in the aftermath of England's Glorious Revolution, he still excluded Roman Catholics and atheists from his proposals, on the grounds that they were enemies to the English state.

Diarmaid MacCulloch

#17. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Truth lies in the hands of its editor.

Michael Dobbs

#18. Thucydides had grasped that vital historical insight that groups of people behave differently and have different motivations from individual human beings, and that they often behave far more discreditably than individuals. He

Diarmaid MacCulloch

#19. Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything.

Ken Jeong

#20. A girl likes to be asked, dumbass.

Matthew Woodring Stover