Quotes of: Study-history Keyword

Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studied her letters. “There’s the real world, with all its annoying facts and rules. In the real world, there are things that are true and things that...

NOS4A2

I used to walk out, at night, to the breakwater which divides the end of the harbor form the broad moor of the salt marsh. There was nothing to block the wind that had picked up speed and vigor from its Atlantic crossing. I’d study the stars in the...

Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

Jeffrey Goines: When I was institutionalized, my brain was studied exhaustively in the guise of mental health. I was interrogated, I was x-rayed, I was examined *thoroughly*. [turns head and coughs] Jeffrey Goines: Then, they took everything about me...

Twelve Monkeys

Study hard, but party harder.

Nicole Polizzi

Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.

Kent McCord

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Amy Winehouse

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

Gary Sinise

I used to like studying a lot.

Juan Manuel Marquez

A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

Lance Reddick

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In its various forms, so far as we know them, Love seems always to have a deep significance and a most practical importance to us little mortals. In one form, as the mere semi-conscious Sex-love, which runs through creation and is common to the lowes...

The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Collected Essays

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.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

You did love me," I whispered. "Just not the same way I loved you.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

News flash, Bozo. Don't ever tell a girl to relax. It only makes us madder.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her she should be.

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.

Darkness at Noon

When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power.

The Early History of Rome:

Australian History: .... does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies.

Following the Equator - Part 7