Quotes of: World-history Keyword

Most of what presents itself to us in the marketplace as a product is in truth a web of relationships, between people, yes, but also between ourselves and all the other species on which we still depend. Eating and drinking especially implicate us in ...

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

All of our faith and practice arise out of the drama of Scripture, the “big story” that traces the plot of history from creation to consummation, with Christ as its Alpha and Omega, beginning and end. And out of the throbbing verbs of this unfold...

Pilgrim Theology: Core Doctrines for Christian Disciples

She’s kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she’s turned life away. Sometimes she subsists for days on water and air. Being the only known complex life-form to do this, she should have a species named a...

The History of Love

Look, without our stories, without the true nature and reality of who we are as People of Color, nothing about fanboy or fangirl culture would make sense. What I mean by that is: if it wasn't for race, X-Men doesn't sense. If it wasn't for the histor...

Junot Diaz

My point is, or should be, simple: history happened. The object is not to undo it, distort it, or to make it fit our present political attitudes. The object of history, which each generation properly interprets anew, is to understand what happened an...

Who Killed Canadian History?

English kings married their cousins and so their kids were as sharp as clubs.

Campaign Zen 500bc - 2012: Colonial March Thru Election History Told in Tavern Doggerel

It must never be forgotten that the general standard of learning and culture of a nation has a large part in determining its law and polity.

A Concise History of the Common Law

For the record, I would like to point out that it is NOT being obsessive to memorize a boy's schedule so that you can accidentally bump into him. It is called being efficient.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

You have a history of starving yourself," he says gently. I lift my head. I meet his gaze. "I have a history that I don't like to talk about.

Charm & Strange

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

You can't do much for the poor, as they are not in with the right people.

The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled

The real origin of the democratic spirit - and most likely, many democratic institutions - lies precisely in those spaces of improvisation just outside the control of governments and organized churches.

The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement

We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.

Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason

The culture of the Epic Fail, in its rituals of comic sacrifice, is a culture of sublimated predation.

Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever

America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.

Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828

The cornerstone of the Roman legionnaires' astonishing fighting spirit can be attributed to their training.

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

The factor that made him so powerful was also his greatest liability.

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

I picked up my camera and held it at arm's length and took a picture of myself not caring. I called it: Glory Doesn't Care.

Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.