Quotes of: Histories Keyword

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.

[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning;

The History of Great Britain: the Reigns of James I and Charles I

I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.

Born Losers: A History of Failure in America

I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.

Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater

The two men who bring guns to the ghetto don't know what to do since when music hit you can't hit it back.

A Brief History of Seven Killings

At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history.

Alison Weir

In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history.

Philip Treacy

The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud. Seeing Jewish history through artifacts, architecture and images is still a young but spectacularly ...

Simon Schama

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Joseph Conrad

En democracia la política es un teatro y nadie puede actuar en un teatro sin fingir.

The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination

The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture.

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

Why is it that married people always say "Come in" when everything they do says "Get out"? They talk about their miseries and then ask you why you're unmarried.

The History Man

It might seem that the empirical philosopher is the slave of his material, but that the pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.

A History of Western Philosophy

[O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy

A History of Philosophy 1: Greece and Rome

All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.

A History of Reading

attraction, that's the farthest thing from an idea. That's an urge, an impulse, a force. It's subconscious, physical. You can't make everything cerebral.

The History of Us

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it might live on the country during the prosecution of the war.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris

The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it.

Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting