Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

Water will, increasingly, be detained, stored and then recycled or infiltrated in gardens.

British Gardens: History, Philosophy and Design

Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shifting it.

A Brief History of Ireland

Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it.

Terry Jones

I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me.

Herb Ritts

Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history.

Another Faust

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond, The. Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific.

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

…growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination

The History of Mr. Polly

In fine, that it is not enough to be good, without behaving in such a manner as shall make others acknowledge us to be so.

The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

The History of Us

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

The Inner Circle

Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history...

The Inner Circle

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).

A Short History of Nearly Everything

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.

Meaning and History: The Rizal Lectures