Margaret MacMillan Quotes

Nuclear proliferation has never entirely been brought under control, and the arsenals of nuclear powers contain bombs far more powerful than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Margaret MacMillan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

ControlPowerfulMoreNeverBeen

It has been pointed out to me, more than once, that for someone who chose a profession steeped in procedure and protocol, I had little use for either.

Joe Jamail

MeSomeoneMoreOutLittleBeen

I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.

Andrea Bocelli

ReadingClassicsLikeVirginiaAlso

The first time I came to New York - and the first time I saw the movie 'Paris Is Burning' - I learned about the homeless LGBT culture in New York City that goes back to the '80s. I found that very interesting, and it's definitely something that I care about.

Andreja Pejic

TimeCultureNew YorkCityHomeless

I always wanted to sing. I didn't know how to do it. I didn't know how to make the singing thing happen.

Rita Wilson

SingingKnowAlwaysHappenSingHow

Most interviewers basically just want us to rephrase the bio. You already know us - why do you need to interview us?

Mike D

YouKnowWantWhyNeedInterview

Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.

Liu Xiaobo

NatureMotherTruthFreeSpeech

To me that's what Jobs was about. He said at the end of the movie, 'When you realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you, your life will change.' That, to me, is a message for right now and people figuring out what they're going to do with themselves.

Joshua Michael Stern

LifeChangePeopleMeWorldEnd

When I started running, a gadget was a wristwatch with a secondhand on it.

Don Kardong

StartedRunningSecondhandGadget

When I came out, everybody in my life that said they loved me unconditionally turned around and said, 'Never mind!'

Bobby Berk

LifeMindMeLovedMy LifeSaid

The weird thing about my relationship with Reince is we were pretty good friends when I was a political donor writing checks to the RNC. But once I was about to enter the administration, for whatever reason, it was a little more adversarial.

Anthony Scaramucci

GoodRelationshipWritingPolitical

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Winston Churchill

WordsOutUnsaidSlavesMasters

You see your children growing. You look at your grandchildren, and you say to yourself, 'What if I weren't here? Have I done all I can to prepare them for their role in life?' You realize that you never quite do everything, but you want to do better than what you have done.

Thomas S. Monson

LifeChildrenYourselfBetterLook

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Margaret MacMillan