Quotes of: Histories Keyword

The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier" - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009

Soldiers: A History Of Men In Battle

Open scatter is more fundamental than coupled sharing; it is the stuff from which, on splendid occasions, dialogue may arise.

Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication

Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his success, but the history of his trials, which deserves to be related.

Michael Strogoff

['non-white' gay men] are run over at the intersection of racism and homophobia

The Making of a Gay Asian Community: An Oral History of Pre-AIDS Los Angeles

The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum of fossils of life and civilisations.

Selections from the Prison Notebooks

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

What laid me low was no mystical vision, no message from God, but a blow of compassion. In a wakeful mind, no force is more terrible, or precious.

A Private History of Awe

Even the disciples, who at times could be dense as bricks, realized that the true neighbor was the one who showed mercy to a stranger.

A Private History of Awe

What's remarkable about old age is not that we wear out but that we last so long in the grip of gravity.

A Private History of Awe

It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is.

On Politics: A History of Political Thought from Herodotus to the Present

Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi