Quotes of: Modern-history Keyword

I have a few friends that have inspired me since I was a young kid. When I watch old films or modern movies - particularly 'Gladiator,' 'New Jack City' and 'The Skin I Live In' - I'll also get ideas.

Theophilus London

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

Arthur Goldberg

Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.

Andrew Lo

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

Jane Campion

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

Wally Lamb

The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.

George Osborne

Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

Harriet Harman

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

In the midst of happiness or despair in sorrow or in joy in pleasure or in pain: Do what is right and you will be at peace. In life there is no greater gift than peace, except love. May you always have love.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

It's easy to see the faults in people, I know; and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled

They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod.

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

He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible.

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

Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation".

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

The most important thing for morale was to maintain a united front among the officers.

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

That the regime was willing to hit itts chief political constituency in the pocket was a clear sign of desperation.

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

Foreign policy often involved nothing more than the decision whom to make war upon.

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

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood." "Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?" "How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

A Feast for Crows

In the Catskills, nostalgia runs backwards. The upwardly mobile Jewish masses of the 1950s and 1960s have been replaced by the Jews of 19th century Poland.

Famous Drownings in Literary History: Essays on 21st-Century Jewishness

By shooting the darkest areas three zones lighter, you turned a black, lifeless max black zone 0 into a zone 3. I think, in life, most of us did this all the time.

Glory O'Brien's History of the Future