Quotes of: Natural-history Keyword

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

What laid me low was no mystical vision, no message from God, but a blow of compassion. In a wakeful mind, no force is more terrible, or precious.

A Private History of Awe

Even the disciples, who at times could be dense as bricks, realized that the true neighbor was the one who showed mercy to a stranger.

A Private History of Awe

What's remarkable about old age is not that we wear out but that we last so long in the grip of gravity.

A Private History of Awe

It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is.

On Politics: A History of Political Thought from Herodotus to the Present

Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical".

The Whig Interpretation of History

Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

Major Owens

Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of baseball, only got over 50%. Johnny Bench is the best catcher in the history of baseball, but Piazza has all the record for catchers as far as offensiv...

Pete Rose

She probably thought I was making a dumb joke, but sometimes history sounded like a dumb joke. History was either a dumb joke or a cruel joke.

Total Oblivion, More or Less

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

The History of Love

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

The History of Love

She abandoned the garden, and the mums and asters that had trusted her to see them through to the first frost hung their waterlogged heads.

The History of Love

At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States.

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves.

The History of Love