Quotes of: Des-moines Keyword

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

George Herbert

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

Anne Sullivan

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.

Gail Collins

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.

Guy Gavriel Kay

In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians either in Europe or America.

James Henry Breasted

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

John Henrik Clarke

Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.

Jill Lepore

I believe that each fight teaches you something, and a new history is written in each fight.

Juan Manuel Marquez

Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.

John Shelby Spong

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

Kurt Busiek

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Ruth Benedict

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.

Robert Darnton

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

Rick Perlstein

The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

Stephen Covey

I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it.

Daniel Kahneman

My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing break.

Stephen J. Cannell

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.

Jonathan Kozol

I am very lucky in that I can eat what I want and don't have to follow any special diet.

Carine Roitfeld

When most people think about my work, they think about diet. To me, diet has always been the least interesting part of it.

Dean Ornish