Quotes of: Black-history Keyword

As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

When my father wrote about fate, I think he was writing about the reality that is, when there are so many other realities that could have been.

A Partial History of Lost Causes

There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.

Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

The fashion look of teens and twentysomethings -once so cutting edge- is now, like most of the music played on the radio, a matter of routine. Safe, tired, everywhere.

Pretty Vacant: A History of UK Punk

A writer in early 1930, boosting the beauty business, started off a magazine article with the sentence: "The average American woman has sixteen square feet of skin.

A People's History of the United States

There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by experience - the final end of human progress.

Vicars of Christ: A History of the Popes

The importance of setting a date, as in choosing a colour, is a matter of selection. Orange may be seen equally well as 'the decline and fall of red' or 'the rise and triumph of yellow'.

Villains' Paradise: A History of Britain's Underworld

Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

Only by assuming an infinitesimally small unit for observation - a differential of history (that is, the common tendencies of men) - and arriving at the art of integration (finding the sum of the infinitesimals) can we hope to discover the laws of hi...

War and Peace

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Where some see a new world disorder, others see the opportunity to bring organization.

What Would Google Do?: Reverse-Engineering the Fastest Growing Company in the History of the World

Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually impaired body or a body impaired by the creation of a world that is no longer human in scale.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

So she did not replay, but played the strategist. She retained more power by withholding an answer.

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Érase una vez un niño que amaba a una niña, y la risa de ella era como una pregunta que él quería pasar la vida contestando

The History of Love