Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians. — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands. — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Chronology can be dangerous. You can get so linear that it becomes robotic for the reader. — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“On the whole I try to keep Modesty and Willie in timeless settings, which is why I avoid all the latest slang… — Peter O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
There will be a day on which we will realize that past and future are nothing else than what we call present. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
Particularly, the actors, to have analyzed the script in great detail from the point of view of their specific character. So that… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
My good lady,’ interrupted Clent, ‘are you telling me that he is not the Luck? That you have in some way obfuscated… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
The way history is currently taught in schools, jumping from Hitler to the Henrys, is like a nightmare vision of Star Wars,… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“Only on rare occasions was the calendar the basis of the chronology. More often than not, the narrator's sense of time is… — Patricia Lim Pui Huen Copy Share Image
I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
There just isn’t a weak season of 'Breaking Bad.' There’s just superior work, a sprint toward evil that turned into a marathon.… — Hank Stuever Copy Share Image
“The question is, shall it or shall it not be linear history. I've always thought a kaleidoscopic view might be an interesting… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial; what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.” — STEPHANE AUDEGUY Copy Share Image
So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
“Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of… — James Hamilton-Paterson Copy Share Image
In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record, — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
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