Quotes of: The-history-of Keyword

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

Michael Rostovtzeff

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.

Tom Wolfe

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

Edmund Beecher Wilson

Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY.

Fela Durotoye

It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

...And so history gets written to prove the legend is ridiculous. But soon the legend replaces the history because the legend is more interesting.

John Brouwer

Home gives you something no other place can... your history. Home is where your history begins.

Billie Letts

We have to remember, sometimes the most important history is the history we're making today.

J.K. Rowling

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

Joseph Campbell

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

Julien Gracq

[after his men fail to kill Tom] Richie Cusack: How do you fuck that up?

A History of Violence

This is an orchestration for an event. For a dance in fact. The participants will be apprised of their roles at the proper time. For now it is enough that they have arrived. As the dance is the thing with which we are concerned and contains complete ...

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

Who that has ever visited the borders of this classic sea, has not felt at the first sight of its waters a glow of reverent rapture akin to devotion, and an instinctive sensation of thanksgiving at being permitted to stand before these hallowed waves...

The Natural History of the European Seas

The decadence which did occur in the Islamic world belongs to a much later period of Islamic history than is usually claimed. This fact would be fully substantiated if the integral history of Islamic science and civilization were to be written one da...

A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World

We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

History boring, Janice concurred, undaunted as usual. It’s not like the Ride of the Valkyries. It’s what comes history that isn’t boring.

Duplex

Can we love what will swallow us when we are gone? I do.

Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World

[P]ower is at its most potent when it can operate silently.

Early Modern England: A Social History 1550 1760

Never base motivation or fear, entirely.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

Not living your life is just like killing yourself, only it takes longer.

Glory O'Brien's History of the Future