Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

And who thought it was a good idea to rent bicycles to Italian adolescent language students? If hell did exist, which Jackson was sure it did, it would be governed by a committee of fifteen-year-old Italian boys on bikes.

Case Histories

The authors of the New Testament and Josephus created what might be called history´s first intelligence test. The consequence for failing it is belief in a false god.

Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Not every murderer is known, not every death is recorded, not every human being in the history of mankind is remembered and not every God’s name is memorised by me. That doesn’t mean they don’t exist, Dr.Mukherjee.

The Covert Perspective

Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous.

Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest

Your condition does not determine your life history. It’s your decision in that condition that tells more about your destiny. Decide not to see the available as the preferable!

Daily Drive 365

Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.

Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia

History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.

The Darkness That Comes Before

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

...we have to save the history we have. You never know what small bit of it might change your life--or change the whole world.

Dead End in Norvelt

The idea of God was invented in the small hours of history by a scam who had genius; it somehow reeks too much of humanity, that idea, to make its azure origin plausible...

Despair

Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.

Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent

If it is the will of God for man to be sick, no one in history violated the will of God more than Jesus. Just as God desires all men to be saved, He also desires all men to be healed.

Divine Healing Made Simple

History was always buried deep, even when you know where to look. And it was hard to excavate it without damaging it. Brushes and cotton swabs, not chisels and pickaxes. Slow work. You had to like doing it.

The Dream Thieves

That is why historians surprise me. They seem to have no talent for the likeliness of any situation. They see history like a peepshow; with two-dimensional figures against a distant background.

The Daughter of Time

...in my wildest, most indulgent dreams, we only hear about sexual assault & abuse in history books.

Dear Sister: Letters From Survivors of Sexual Violence

Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth.

Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilization

Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we sink into the mire of deceit and self-delusion.

The End of the Jesus Era

It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present.

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Sunny held Kit, and Violet held Klaus, and for a minute the four castaways did nothing but weep, letting their tears run down their faces and into the sea, which some have said is nothing but a library of all tears in history.

The End