For us, when we think about the Middle Ages, it's sort of this rarefied, distant time that we have no connection to,… — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
I had no intention of providing any answers or solutions, because you'd only look a fool, but I did want to talk… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“It’s like we've been flung back in time," he said. "Here we are in the Stone Age, knowing all these great things… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Some authors have argued that a direct historical line can be drawn to Nazism from the French Revolution of 1789, the Jacobin… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share Image
I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
There happened in the Middle Ages what has happened so often since then. Those who were the beneficiaries of the established order… — Henri Pirenne Copy Share Image
“The past is not something fixed and unalterable. Its facts are re-discoverable by every succeeding generation, its values re-assessed, its meaning re-defined… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate. — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I would always prefer radio or working behind the scenes where I don't have to be seen. I don't like how appearance… — Susan Olsen Copy Share Image
He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour. — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
“What Joan impressed on the men by her faith and her actions, then, had more to do with the things of God… — Donald Spoto Copy Share Image
Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Closely related are the entries in his bestiary, a compendium of short tales of animals and moral lessons based on their traits.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Terrorists are like a fly that tries to destroy a china shop. The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“In the late Middle Ages the stupefying simplicity of the heliocentric model was used as an argument to discredit the new astronomy.… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive. — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It's a system of education entirely for the middle aged. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
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