Quotes of: The-history-of Keyword

History is made by people. And the majority of people are arseholes. Which is I suppose why the majority of history has been so disastrous.

Ben Elton

Tom Stall: Who's Joey? Carl Fogaty: You are. Tom Stall: My name's Tom, sir. Carl Fogaty: 'Course it is.

A History of Violence

Danny Vinyard: [writing the beginning of the essay] People look at me and see my brother.

American History X

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

Albert Camus

More than ever, we are dealing with the history of the masses, and no history of individuals. Less than ever, it is possible to predict the near future ...

Andrei I. Shingarev

The facts are always frightening, and in all of us fear of the facts is constantly at work, constantly being fuelled; but this morbid fear must not lead us to conceal the facts and so to falsify the whole of human history -- which is of course part o...

Gathering Evidence & My Prizes: A Memoir

The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest, but if it is judged worthy by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the understanding of the future, which in the course of human ...

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Over and over again in the study of the history of life it appears that what can happen does happen. There is little suggestion that what occurs must occur, that it was fated or that it follows some fixed plan, except simply as the expansion of life ...

The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man, Revised Edition

Never before in history had societies thought that such a set of high expectations about marriage was either realistic or desirable. Although many Europeans and Americans found tremendous joy in building their relationships around these values, the a...

Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage

Physicians, patients, and ethicists must also understand that acknowledging abuse and encouraging African Americans to participate in research are compatible goals. History and today's deplorable African American health profile tell us clearly that b...

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?" "Yes, I am fond of history." "I wish I were too. I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with ...

Northanger Abbey

How are you going to spend your day today? The key word being spend. Our time is one of the most precious gifts in our lives. Once today is over, that's it. Think about how you really want to spend your day. Tomorrow, today will be history. It's your...

The Waves of Life Quotes Companion Journal

Even now all possible feelings do not yet exist. There are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From time to time, when a piece of music no one has ever written, or a painting no one has ever painted, or something else imposs...

The History of Love

Less than a decade after the Great Exhibition, iron as a structural material was finished—which makes it slightly odd that the most iconic structure of the entire century, about to rise over Paris, was made of that doomed material. I refer of cours...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If yo...

Winona LaDuke

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