The Present Celebrates Those Who Say "Yes". History Exalts And Remembers Those Who Said "No
Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible.
I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.
The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.
We were each of us trying; trying to undo our own history while wishing for Superman.
We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars -- glued together with magic and music and words.
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".
God is the one who always remembers those whom history has forgotten.
History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.
Throughout history there have been those who have created change, and others who have feared it.
In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography.
History presents a record of follies and errors fondly cherished, and reluctantly abandoned.
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Seek for no meaning in it; it has none. What meaning is there in pain and pleasure? They are twins; that is all we know. Seek no meaning in anything you see here. Images, ideas, flashes of purpose will peer out in all our ways and deeds, but there is...
Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in...
