Compelled Quote by Avery Brooks Download Open image “What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.” — Avery Brooks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compelled Feelings History Humans Thinking
The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past. It enables us to turn our head this way and that, and begin to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint. — David Christian Copy Share Image
Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know… — Avery Brooks Copy Share Image
People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago. — Avery Brooks Copy Share Image
If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my… — Avery Brooks Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that I accepted, once asked to do Star Trek, was to give a single child a chance to see the… — Avery Brooks Copy Share Image
Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom… — Avery Brooks Copy Share Image
Father, I have much to be grateful for tonight and I thank you. I have much to regret and I ask your forgiveness. But… — Avery Brooks Copy Share Image
Hold on to your dream. Don't let the people shake you from your dream. — Avery Brooks Copy Share Image
Hold on to your dream. Don't let the people shake you from your dream. Don't let form become more important than the substance of… — Avery Brooks Copy Share Image
For all we know, at this very moment, somewhere far beyond all those distant stars, Benny Russell is dreaming of us. — Avery Brooks Copy Share Image
Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively. — Avery Brooks Copy Share Image
We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be… — Charles Albert Gobat Copy Share Image
Untethered technology gives us the freedom to do nearly anything, anytime, anywhere. It can also enslave us - we feel compelled to use it… — Linda Stone Copy Share Image
He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of other books and this book [Tears we cannot stop] was different. I couldn't just say what I wanted to… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
See with what force yon river's crystal stream Resists the weight of many a massy beam. To sink the wood the more we vainly… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I love different sorts of people, their stories, all the different facets, that make them, them. This is entwined with how I am compelled… — Gemma Cairney Copy Share Image
The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It's a mission for me to make sure that philanthropy doesn't feel like a vintage hand-me-down from mom or dad. I want people to… — Usher Copy Share Image
Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
