Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

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

America, I don't think you can change history." All the same, his expression looked hopeful. "Sure we can. Besides, who'd ever know about it but you and me?

The Selection

All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

Middlemarch

As an anonymous wit is supposed to have put it: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enough time, changes into people.

Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History

Here, Mortimer Wheeler thought, is power. And a reminder of our mortality.

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere self is the theme.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The wind helps me unwind. I make love like Don Quixote windmilled into history.

My love can only occupy one person at a time

Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people - people like you and me who did things to change the world.

Nightmare

But dogmatism—or the inclination "to identify the goal of our thinking with the point at which we have become tired of thinking"—is so natural to man that it is not likely to be a preserve of the past. [Citing Lessing's January 9, 1771 letter to ...

Natural Right and History

She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.

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