Quotes of: Modern-history Keyword

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

Emma Watson

One should never underestimate the role of stupidity in history

A History of Modern Iran

I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.

Scott Ritter

Marriage, [...], the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.

The History Man

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

Early Modern England: A Social History 1550 1760

I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.

Alexander Lebedev

This is an extremely difficult matter for modern readers of the gospels to grasp, but Luke never meant for his story about Jesus's birth at Bethlehem to be understood as historical fact. Luke would have had no idea what we in the modern world even me...

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

Few poets better convey the uneasy transition from Victorianism to Modernism than Thomas Hardy. His novels, written between 1870 and 1895, made him not only the recorder of his distinctive region of 'Wessex', but the explorer of the transition of liv...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Robert Penn Warren

Art and life are seen to be rich and mutually enriching

The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

Robert Scheer

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Golda Meir

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

Shakespeare and Modern Culture

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Harold Rosenberg

In asking for a relic of Descartes, the chevalier de Terlon was standing at the crossroads of the ancient and modern. He was applying to a modern thinker - the inventor of analytic geometry, no less - a primitive tradition that extends back not only ...

Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason

History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.

Age of Hirohito: In Search of Modern Japan

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one.

Tom Wolfe

The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.

The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History

[Kandinsky] arrived, as they say, 'with snow on his boots', and it never really melted.

The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History

I did 'Call of Duty Modern Warfare' as Gaz, then I did Ghost in 'Modern Warfare 2,' which has become one of the most iconic figures in the history of computer games.

Craig Fairbrass

One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again be quite so 'easy' as they had been.

A Terrible Beauty: The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind: A History