Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose

...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.

Kushiel's Dart

If only we were angels, with transparent bodies and transparent thoughts...

Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication

Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.

The Normal Christian Life

The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed.

The Life History of a Star

Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation.

Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises

...and analysis proved to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

A Short History of Progress

There’s no point to living life unless you make history and the best way to make history is to help others.

Stay Strong

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

Our Enemy, the State

I think the only way to properly face doom is to be on time.

A Partial History of Lost Causes

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History

When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

The highest distinction is service to others.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

...I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival...

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

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