Quotes of: Study-history Keyword

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

Theodore Bikel

Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this mile...

Jon Porter

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

1984

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: 'At the time, no one knew what was coming.

1Q84

Sex drives the world and sex in on every human mind, be it a prophet or be it a saint, history has full of evidences.

25 Sexy Poems

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

The Alchemist

The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.

An Armenian Sketchbook

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.

Vera Wang

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Walter Bagehot

Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.

History of the Russian Revolution

... history is forever unfinished, forever in process; endless because our needs are endless.

The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World

Much of what we call History is the success stories of madmen.

Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better

You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.

I Am Number Four

When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.

India: An Illustrated History

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist

Inferno

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

Killosophy

breath is not aware of its history; it is just breath. I wish I could be like that, or love could be like that.

The Realm of Possibility

At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.

Rubies in the Sand

Fine,” he said. “You’re right. We’re not normal. We’re the most fucked-up, star-crossed lovers in history. So let’s not play nice.

Reaver

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Ship of Destiny

If asked which words one associated with the Sahara, only the most dedicated surrealist might be expected to offer "whale".

The Sahara: A Cultural History