Margaret Macmillan Quotes

#1. Theodore Rex. Roosevelt was driven by ambition, idealism and vanity. As his daughter famously remarked: My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening.

Margaret MacMillan

#2. We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

Margaret MacMillan

#3. The glories of the past compensated for the imperfections of the present.

Margaret MacMillan

#4. 3053Geography also gave Russia a rich choice of potential enemies.

Margaret MacMillan

#5. Ghetto is not the People but their state of mind.

Joan Ambu

#6. In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.

Margaret MacMillan

#7. Wilson agreed reluctantly to their attempts: I don't much like to make a compromise with people who aren't reasonable. They will always believe that, by persisting in their claims, they will be able to obtain more.

Margaret MacMillan

#8. My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

Johann Sebastian Bach

#9. Anyone who falls into your hands falls to your sword!

Margaret MacMillan

#10. It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

Hugh Jackman

#11. The last time I changed my camera was 50 years ago. All I need is a good face and the right light.

Jane Bown

#12. Sometimes I lose my temper.

Noam Chomsky

#13. Many brief follies
that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#15. The idea of fixing of healing is an important part of any genuine spiritual approach. Kabbalah is very much about this idea of fixing of things that have been damaged. From a Buddhist point of view, things have been damaged because ignorance has intoxicated the mind.

Richard Gere

#16. Now, a leader must cause things to happen and lives to be affected. Something should move and change. He must see that those under him do not fail. But it should be done in the Lord's way.

James E. Faust

#17. What may seem like a reasonable way of protecting oneself can look very different from the other side of the border.

Margaret MacMillan

#18. For someone grieving, cook with chives, ginger, coriander, and rosemary. Theirs is the pungent flavor, which draws grief up and out of the body and releases it into the air.

Nicole Mones

#19. The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#20. Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a serious look at what is happening in northern Alberta. To call this book a polemic is a compliment.

Margaret MacMillan

#21. My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it.

Simon McBurney

#22. As the American historian John Lewis Gaddis put it, it is like looking in a rearview mirror: if you only look back, you will land in the ditch, but it helps to know where you have come from and who else is on the road.

Margaret MacMillan

#23. Sometimes little things happen which seem nothing at all, but they hurt.

Ivan Turgenev

#24. The delegates to the peace conference after World War I tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world.

Margaret MacMillan

#25. British would use every means from persuasion to bribery in Morocco and when those failed the wives of British diplomats knew what they had to do to further Britain's interests.

Margaret MacMillan

#26. Louvain was a dull place, said a guidebook in 1910, but when the time came it made a spectacular fire.

Margaret MacMillan

#27. Nationalist movements often overlapped with economic and class issues: Rumanian and Ruthenian peasants, for example, challenged their Hungarian and Polish landlords.

Margaret MacMillan

#28. China. The Kaiser had temporarily

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#29. But the superiority of the British is that it is a matter of complete indifference to them if they appear to be stupid.

Margaret MacMillan

#30. IF YOU BELIEVE THE DOCTORS," Salisbury once remarked, "nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe.

Margaret MacMillan

#31. The life and fellowship of the church is to be a foretaste of life in the Kingdom of God.

George Eldon Ladd

#32. History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

Margaret MacMillan