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History Quotes

Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate Picture Quote #1

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it Picture Quote #1

When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him Picture Quote #1

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure Picture Quote #1

You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out Picture Quote #1

You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past Picture Quote #1

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History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places Picture Quote #1

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination Picture Quote #1

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one Picture Quote #1

Don’t let them make you doubt yourself. All the greatest visionaries in history have been told they were insane at some point Picture Quote #1

As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It’s not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination Picture Quote #1

History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth Picture Quote #1

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For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face Picture Quote #1

I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and boundary my destiny. Push down the watered mountains that blemish this soiled soul before the valleys of my conscience get the best of me. I’ll need a passport just to simply reach the rest of me. A vaccination for a lesser god’s bleak history Picture Quote #1

If anything in this life is certain... if history has taught us anything, it’s that you cn kill anyone Picture Quote #1

She didn’t know a lot about politics – yet – but she’d learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse Picture Quote #1

It suddenly occurred to me that every move on the chessboard is old and has been played by somebody at some time. Maybe our own history has been played out by somebody at some time, and we just move our pieces about in the same moves to strike in the same way as people have always done Picture Quote #1

In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of one’s life history is etched in the senses. And things of no particular importance, or irreplaceable things, can suddenly resurface in a café one winter night Picture Quote #1

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Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history Picture Quote #1

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present Picture Quote #1

They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses Picture Quote #1

You have a unique body and mind, with a particular history and conditioning. No one can offer you a formula for navigating all situations and all states of mind. Only by listening inwardly in a fresh and open way will you discern at any given time what most serves your healing and freedom Picture Quote #1

If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy’s history Picture Quote #1

The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history Picture Quote #1

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No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free Picture Quote #1

Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision Picture Quote #1

Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement Picture Quote #1

We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness Picture Quote #1

Bah! Suffragettes. I’ve no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power! Picture Quote #1

The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time Picture Quote #1

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Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate (History Quotes) History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it (History Quotes) When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him (History Quotes) History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure (History Quotes) You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out (History Quotes) You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past (History Quotes) History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places (History Quotes) As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination (History Quotes) A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one (History Quotes) Don’t let them make you doubt yourself. All the greatest visionaries in history have been told they were insane at some point (History Quotes) As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It’s not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination (History Quotes) History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth (History Quotes) For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face (History Quotes) I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and boundary my destiny. Push down the watered mountains that blemish this soiled soul before the valleys of my conscience get the best of me. I’ll need a passport just to simply reach the rest of me. A vaccination for a lesser god’s bleak history (History Quotes) If anything in this life is certain... if history has taught us anything, it’s that you cn kill anyone (History Quotes) She didn’t know a lot about politics – yet – but she’d learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse (History Quotes) It suddenly occurred to me that every move on the chessboard is old and has been played by somebody at some time. Maybe our own history has been played out by somebody at some time, and we just move our pieces about in the same moves to strike in the same way as people have always done (History Quotes) In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of one’s life history is etched in the senses. And things of no particular importance, or irreplaceable things, can suddenly resurface in a café one winter night (History Quotes) Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history (History Quotes) We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present (History Quotes) They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses (History Quotes) You have a unique body and mind, with a particular history and conditioning. No one can offer you a formula for navigating all situations and all states of mind. Only by listening inwardly in a fresh and open way will you discern at any given time what most serves your healing and freedom (History Quotes) If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy’s history (History Quotes) The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history (History Quotes) No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free (History Quotes) Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision (History Quotes) Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement (History Quotes) We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness (History Quotes) Bah! Suffragettes. I’ve no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power! (History Quotes) The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time (History Quotes)

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