Quotes of: History-book Keyword

Little things matter far more than big ones. We remember them longer. We can’t control the big things. If you think about what’s happened in the past, it will be the small moments that come to the forefront, not the big transitions. The big thing...

Hostile Takeover

I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried to keep them all, but that quest soon became impossible; I now only keep the ones I'm sure I'm going to reread, the ones I'm definitel...

The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in an educated adult, is the perfectly serious indoctrination of the young in knowably false or biased history - the heroic le...

The Four Loves

The Bible- banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it; dictators of every age have outlawed it and executed those who read it. Yet so...

Charles W. Colson

Little John: [singing] All the world will sing of an English king a thousand years from now / And not because he's passed some law or had that lofty brow / While bonnie good King Richard leads the Great Crusade he's on / We'll all have to slave away ...

Robin Hood

This is an orchestration for an event. For a dance in fact. The participants will be apprised of their roles at the proper time. For now it is enough that they have arrived. As the dance is the thing with which we are concerned and contains complete ...

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

Who that has ever visited the borders of this classic sea, has not felt at the first sight of its waters a glow of reverent rapture akin to devotion, and an instinctive sensation of thanksgiving at being permitted to stand before these hallowed waves...

The Natural History of the European Seas

The decadence which did occur in the Islamic world belongs to a much later period of Islamic history than is usually claimed. This fact would be fully substantiated if the integral history of Islamic science and civilization were to be written one da...

A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World

I’m an open book—an open book I’m still writing and editing. My book is a romance novel, sort of like The Secret.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

You must feel it from within. You must want to write the book. You must desire to write the book

The Book Within You: The Aspiring Author's Guide to Bringing the Book Within You, Out

There are books for when you're bored. Plenty of them. There are books for when you're calm. The best kind, in my opinion. There are also books for when you're sad. And there are books for when you're happy. There are books for when you're thirsty fo...

Love

I had the 'War of the Worlds' comic book. I had lots of comic books.

Roky Erickson

We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

History boring, Janice concurred, undaunted as usual. It’s not like the Ride of the Valkyries. It’s what comes history that isn’t boring.

Duplex

Can we love what will swallow us when we are gone? I do.

Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World

[P]ower is at its most potent when it can operate silently.

Early Modern England: A Social History 1550 1760

Never base motivation or fear, entirely.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

Not living your life is just like killing yourself, only it takes longer.

Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Nothing [...] will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia