Quotes of: Modern-history Keyword

Those activities of an earlier day, furthermore, provided opportunities for cooperative action toward a common goal and for a sense of accomplishment that was not readily available to a modern technological society. For the 'city-bred child of today'...

Life

For a long time I had wanted to take leave of Planet Tourism, to find one of those places that occasionally turn up in the middle pages of newspapers in far-flung cities, in which--we are told--a mad loner has been discovered who has lost all contact...

Love

Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and instrumental attending, says Tellegen, as is the modern architect Frank Gehry. Choosing a ...

Winifred Gallagher

Maybe this was why people filled their house with stinking cats, so they didn't notice that they were alone, so they wouldn't die without a living soul noticing.

Case Histories

When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbages are evil that the guisado is evil?

Culture and History

The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.

Cold Steel

...history, as you may know, is much like a spiral staircase that gives the illusion of going up, but never quite goes anywhere.

City of Stairs

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

Dead Beat

History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.

Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?” “If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

A Dance with Dragons

What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in

The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

Roger. Be Safe. We'll be there when we can, over.

Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History

... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.

Don Quixote

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

Dust

The most important events in every age never reach the history books.

The Dark Tower and Other Stories

Stay with and pursue your dreams, and history will tell your stories in golden, glossy and embossed shining foils

Discovering Yourself

Saturated Arrogance ...she rebuked those about her in darkness did she dwell a pathetic history all mortal man would tell..

Enigmatic Evolution

But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.

Ender's Game

Nobody should ever try to second-guess history; the facts are fantastic enough.

Education of a Wandering Man

History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Your place in history depends on what you do for others, not what others do for you.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics