Quotes of: Histories Keyword

We are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention.

Fight Club

I saw an infinity of forgotten details dancing across history's dizzying expanse.

A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France

You're Professor Mills? The new one who teaches history?" As opposed to the old Professor Mills who preached overthrow of the government?

Fair Game

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

Fugitive Pieces

...all concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.

On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo

History chews up sexually uncertain boys, and spits us out as recycled, generic greeting cards for lonely old men.

Grasshopper Jungle

Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there.

The Gospel of Loki

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

The Grapes of Wrath

You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.

A Happy Death

We aren't haunted by the dead, but by the impossible reach of history. By how unknowable these others are to us, how unfathomable we'd be to them.

The Hundred-Year House

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.

On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

Almost every major turning point in the history of mankind was a side-effect of totally unrelated intentions.

The Book of Aftermath

With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us.

The Black Banner

The greatest changes in history have come when people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

Bloodlines

The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

Bloodlines

It was like he'd sprung fully-formed from my eighteen-year-old fantasies, the hot History teacher who just couldn't help himself.

The Boss

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

August Wilson

Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.

Anne Fortier

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

Christopher Dawson

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

John Henrik Clarke

When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses could be accounted for by facts from a very early age. Her parents, William Henry Jones and Sarah Emily, were desperately poor.

John Rhys-Davies