Quotes of: Art-history Keyword

On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.

Ray Mabus

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

William Kirby

History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.

Samantha Power

No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is.

Eduardo Galeano

Richie Cusack: A lot of great-looking women in the world. I never met one made me wanna give up all the others.

A History of Violence

Tom Stall: In this family, we do not solve problems by hitting people! Jack Stall: No, in this family, we shoot them! [Tom slaps Jack]

A History of Violence

Tom Stall: [about Jack beating up Bobby] What the hell were you thinking? Jack Stall: I wasn't thinking. Tom Stall: Obviously not.

A History of Violence

Bob Sweeney: This racist propaganda, this "Mein Kampf" psychobabble; he learned this nonsense, Murray, and he can unlearn it too. I will not give up on this child yet.

American History X

Derek Vinyard: One in every three black males is in some phase of the correctional system. Is that a coincidence or do these people have, you know, like a racial commitment to crime?

American History X

History doesn't remember gardens. … You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn’t feel embarrassed, though. So did history.

Andrew Ashling

Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.

Ayn Rand

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art Bullfighting can be an art Bo...

Charles Bukowski

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?

The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

The Choice

Be kind to dragons, for thou art crunchy when toasted and taste good with ketchup. (Sebastian)

Dragonswan

When we are attuned to our inner voice, life becomes art and art becomes life.

Divine Attunement: Music as a Path to Wisdom

While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.

Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions

... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.

The French Art of Revenge

This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned.

The French Art of Revenge

Humans make art to remember and be remembered,” said Caius. “Art is their weapon against forgetting.

The Girl at Midnight

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.

Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction