Quotes of: Whitman Keyword

The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.

George Will

In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.

Julian Assange

I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.

Jo Beverley

You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.

James Surowiecki

The most interesting comments, they don't come from people with Klout scores. They don't come from people with a history on our sites.

Nick Denton

People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, 'What an atrocity that was' then it is to say, 'What an atrocity this is.'

Natasha Trethewey

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

Roger Mudd

When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is no longer brain activity or response.

Ann Hood

It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

Jennifer Armintrout

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

George Bernard Shaw

I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

Julie Burchill

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

E. W. Howe

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

If there's unemployment, having the government help reduce that unemployment, increase employment directly is a pretty good idea. It's not driving out competition; it's not crowding out.

Jeremy Grantham

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

Max Beerbohm

Within an ensemble, like in sports, if you do your little job, it makes everybody look good.

Stephen Hunter

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

Doug Larson

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Clifton Fadiman

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

Doug Larson

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Eustace Budgell

In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

B. H. Liddell Hart