Histories Quotes

153 quotes by 144 authors

I don't chart out the life histories of the people I play. If I did, I'd be in trouble. I work with my heart and… — Ernest Borgnine
None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only in… — Ernest Renan
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without… — Franklin Pierce
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances. — Walt Whitman
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon
...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of… — Don Kates
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating… — Peter Ackroyd
The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens. — Johnnetta B. Cole
Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories. — Charlton Heston
I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of… — Martin Mull
As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I was unimportant. My friends will… — Newt Gingrich
It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice,… — Plutarch
We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems. — Joy Harjo
That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet.… — Christopher Cokinos
Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise. — Warren Buffett
Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come. But enough material is available, in… — Fredrik Logevall
When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround… — David Brin
People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough.… — Geoff Dyer

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