Quotes of: Art-history Keyword

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.

Indian Philosophy, Volume 1

...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be able to overcome, and it's in those moments, in that fight, that people find out who they are.

The Inner Circle

History isn't written by the winners - it's written by everyone - it's a jigsaw of facts from contradictory sources. But every once in a while, you unearth that one original document that no one can argue with...

The Inner Circle

Jacksonville has a rich history, full of poverty, plight, and poor economic decisions. If you follow the phrase "Follow the money" literally, you'd have left town decades ago.

I am Jacksonville

Forgive them, you might say, for they know not what they do. But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense, a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve.

Inferno

History is not a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.

The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos

Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that’s why they write symphonies..

Into the Wild

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

Jinnah of Pakistan

Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.

Jurassic Park

Don’t be afraid of failures it takes courage to try new things & only those who try create History.

KISS Life "Life is what you make it"

Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.

Killosophy

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.

Killosophy

Europe is made of history, America of philosophy, Asia of prosperity, and Africa of opportunity.

Startup Africa: A must-read guide for curious minds and anyone aiming to do business in Africa

History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.

The Sense of an Ending

They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home.

The Secret History

Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.

Shiver

Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.

A Short Guide to Writing about History

Most of us, most of the time, act within plays the lines of which were written long ago, the images of which require recognition, not invention.

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

Yet my longing for her was like a bad cold that had hung on for years despite my conviction that I was sure to get over it at any moment.

The Secret History

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections of life's journey