Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.

Last Days

Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.

Love and Exile

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

The Last of the Mohicans

This is the way history happens: it is measured out in days rather than epochs.

The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street

Plus, I happened to be a history nerd. Why else would I be interested in a guy born in the year 519?

My Merlin Awakening

a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.

Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists

Jews have been the most successful and productive nation in history.

The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

Science and Method

History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward

The Story of Mankind

I don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

Not everybody can let himself drift along the flow of history. Some of us have to stop to pick up what’s washed up on the banks of the river.

Sophie's World

There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

faith gaped at him"how the hell did you do this?" He looked at her as if she'd asked the dumbest question in history. "I'm brilliant.

Queen of Shadows

A brick could be used to cook with, as a thickening agent in gravy. But as history proves, the thickest agents work for the government as tax collectors.  

Rick Bet Blank

For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.

Travels With Myself

It is indeed the truth of the traumatic experience that forms the center of its psychopathology; it is not a pathology of falsehood or displacement of meaning, but of history itself” (p. 5)

Trauma: Explorations in Memory