Chronicles Quotes
78 quotes by 66 authors
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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad,…
— Samuel Beckett
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It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty…
— George Julius Poulett Scrope
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the…
— H. L. Mencken
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only…
— Alexander Pope
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Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach…
— Adam Sedgwick
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The gay marriage thing to me, I don't understand why it's so important for the secular progressives in this country, the people who want to…
— Bill O'Reilly
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Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.
— Shawn Ashmore
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A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as…
— Stephen Greenblatt
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The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and…
— George W. S. Trow
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The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like…
— John A. Keel
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Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second, to…
— Frank Crowninshield
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Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.
— Gilbert Ryle
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A chronicle is very different from history proper.
— Howard Nemerov
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Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on…
— Henning Mankell
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Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.
— Mark Doty
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History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.
— Louis Fischer
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Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the chronicle of a…
— Philip Gourevitch
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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time…
— Oscar Wilde
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Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American capitalism.…
— Roger Lowenstein
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Because God is a God of mercy and His mercy endures forever, you can trust that he will have mercy on you (See: 1 Chronicles…
— Stormie Omartian
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