Quotes of: Study-history Keyword

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

Amy Smart

Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.

Allen Tate

Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.

Bill Condon

Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Even if you succeed in study and business, if your nation collapses, then what good is it for?

Life

If you don’t know the difference between theology and religious studies, then you’re a theologian.

Life

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

William Godwin

Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.

William Pollard

Writers and learners will write better and learn more if they understand the "why" of what they are studying.

William Zinsser

I guarantee the people who study are going to be successful. Nothing can replace hard work.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

There are - any independent study, from any scientist that's not funded by Syngenta, has found similar problems with atrazine, not just my work on frogs.

Tyrone Hayes

Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

Kitty Kelley

Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.

P. J. O'Rourke

The Thames is liquid history.

John Burns

You cannot not know history.

Philip Johnson

Perhaps in his loneliness he had acquired the silent conviction that he was 'the last', the one, the only. And, being the last, he ceased to be Benjamin, becoming Israel. And upon his heart had settled the history of five thousand years, no longer re...

A Canticle for Leibowitz

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, car...

The Communist Manifesto

There are two ways of life, one leading to righteousness, which brings happiness, and the other to unrighteousness, which produces misery. One leads to kindness, mercy and sympathy, the other to hatred and cruelty; one to tolerance and the other to i...

The Curse of Ignorance: a History of Mankind

One nice thing about heaven is that you can relive all your favorite moments and memories pretty much as many times as you want—sort of like a DVD of your whole life. Pause, rewind, fast-forward, slowwww motion, all day, every day.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societi...

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom is one of our deepest needs and the vision of a free society is one of our oldest dreams. Neither can ever b...

Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism