Chronicles Quotes

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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the… — Oscar Wilde
No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders… — Joan Lindsay
To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to you and me… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice. — E. M. Forster
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews. — Heinrich Heine
Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened. — Oscar Wilde
Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at themâ€”and by laughing at them destroy them? For… — Mark Twain
He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. — William Shakespeare
It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me and you is… — Werner Herzog
this is the best year ever because i am reading the chronicles of vladimir tod — Heather Brewer
...then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron's picture on it and he quoted "She Walks in Beauty," which is like my favorite poem… — Christopher Moore
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged… — Ralph Ellison
The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle… — Nikolai Gogol
In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of ï¬‚ukes, of random events that… — Paul Auster
I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now… — Daniel H. Wilson
Once upon a time . . .â€ â€œIn the beginning was . . .â€ Thatâ€™s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history,… — Steven Tyler
Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and… — Charles Spurgeon
God knows that some of the greatest souls who have ever lived are those who will never appear in the chronicles of history. They are… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. Life is… — E. M. Forster

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