Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

Less than a decade after the Great Exhibition, iron as a structural material was finished—which makes it slightly odd that the most iconic structure of the entire century, about to rise over Paris, was made of that doomed material. I refer of cours...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If yo...

Winona LaDuke

today we read of Don Quixote with a bitter taste in the mouth, it is almost an ordeal, which would make us seem very strange and incomprehensible to the author and his contemporaries, – they read it with a clear conscience as the funniest of books,...

On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo

To the men and women who changed Cheryl Hersha's life, she was a continuation of the research that had first been conducted in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Dr. Morton Prince. He encountered a woman named Miss Beauchamp, a nurs...

Secret Weapons: How Two Sisters Were Brainwashed To Kill For Their Country

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Collected Essays

In the midst of happiness or despair in sorrow or in joy in pleasure or in pain: Do what is right and you will be at peace.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

You did love me," I whispered. "Just not the same way I loved you.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

News flash, Bozo. Don't ever tell a girl to relax. It only makes us madder.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her she should be.

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.

Darkness at Noon

When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power.

The Early History of Rome:

Australian History: .... does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies.

Following the Equator - Part 7

Cultures reflect the interactions of mixed populations.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

The way to a landowner's heart was to tax gently.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar—another means to control.

At Faith's End

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest

I’m thankful that everything sweet is sweet because it is finite.

Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

was a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science.

A History Of Mathematical Statistics From 1750 To 1930

Human life is every where a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers. Scripps: No. Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.

The History Boys