Never in mankind’s history have we so fundamentally changed our means of existence with so little thought.
History had a way of playing cruel tricks on those who chased it.
If you are kind enough today, history will sing your song and be kind to you.
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
Captain Sharp: It's been proven by history: all mankind makes mistakes.
Senator Charles Palantine: We meet at a crossroads in history. No longer will the wrong roads be taken.
Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.
Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." --
The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time.
How beautiful would history have been if it could be written beforehand and then acted out like drama!
This time Simone did not smile at all. "I cannot tell that to you, child. This is a secret I am not allowed to talk about. I only hope that you will know how to follow the true and right path. And now, farewell!" She turned around and walked away bet...
Lord!" he said, "when you sell a man a book you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue — you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night — there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real...
To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let ...
If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in bea...
As a child, I read because books–violent and not, blasphemous and not, terrifying and not–were the most loving and trustworthy things in my life. I read widely, and loved plenty of the classics so, yes, I recognized the domestic terrors faced by ...
If a fool borrows a book cut off his hand; but cut off both hands of the fool who brings it back.
Old truths, old laws, old friends, old books, and old wine are best.
One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.
