History Quote by Ariel Durant Download Open image ““[H]istory is baroque.”” — Ariel Durant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“And this music? It was something akin to the masters, not in composition or length, but rather in the heart behind it.” — Gabriellyn Gidman Copy Share Image
“The sentence is the very foundation of writing; a beautifully crafted sentence is a work of art.” — Jeanne Voelker Copy Share Image
“[...] he is the artist of his own life, and creates it for himself every hour to suit his latest whim.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“[…] he is the artist of his own life, and created it for himself every hours to suit his latest whim.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Style is not the man; it is something better. It is a dizzy, dazzling structure that he erects about himself using as building materials… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was… — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even… — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade,… — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe... — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding. — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
“We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities.” — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
