Quotes of: Modern-history Keyword

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

Julien Gracq

[after his men fail to kill Tom] Richie Cusack: How do you fuck that up?

A History of Violence

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

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

Theodor Adorno

Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.

Mo Ibrahim

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

Garet Garrett

Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.

Ben Goldacre

Color-blocking two bold shades feels so modern.

Brad Goreski

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

Helen Vendler

Most modern comedy is crap.

Adrian Edmondson

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

Atul Gawande

Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.

David Hackworth

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

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

Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia