Quotes of: Study-history Keyword

There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

faith gaped at him"how the hell did you do this?" He looked at her as if she'd asked the dumbest question in history. "I'm brilliant.

Queen of Shadows

A brick could be used to cook with, as a thickening agent in gravy. But as history proves, the thickest agents work for the government as tax collectors.  

Rick Bet Blank

For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.

Travels With Myself

It is indeed the truth of the traumatic experience that forms the center of its psychopathology; it is not a pathology of falsehood or displacement of meaning, but of history itself” (p. 5)

Trauma: Explorations in Memory

There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look like masterpieces.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

David Stern might be the smartest executive in the history of professional sports. His obsession with the Vagrant Kings is one of the strangest stories.

Vagrant Kings

Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history.

Voice of Reason

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

V for Vendetta

Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

White Noise

She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her future feeling the emptiness.

We Shadows

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.

Charlie Pierce

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by t...

George Saintsbury

Immigration reform doesn't impact me personally; nothing my foundation works on does. But the truth is I have a long history of ties to Latin America. Some of my best friends are in Latin America.

Howard Graham Buffett