#ten

Was Charles I too stubborn to listen to reason? Could Civil War have been averted if the king had been more willing to negotiate? His great enemy Cromwell always maintained that the king had been swayed at the last moment by his queen, the beautiful Henrietta Maria. We can believe Cromwell's claim that the queen told her husband to be firm. But the wicked, spiteful, altogether irresistable quote often attributed to her by Puritan writers of the time is almost certainly false. "Oh my love, if you cannot remain firm in the bedchamber, at least try to remain firm with your subjects! ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#impotence #beauty

They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure. ↗

— Helmut Newton

#away #exposure #guy #i #i think

I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff. ↗

— Olivia Newton-John

#every #every day #extent #fullest #i

Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks. ↗

— Bob Ney

#brought #child #communities #free #into

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#average #average person #celebrity #entire #entire life

I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#always #content #decent #effort #enough

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#first #first time #going #i #love

Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#going #haven #here #i #life

Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#golfers #like #lot #masochistic #punish

Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#days #done #everybody #everything #get