Contradictory Quote by Eamon Duffy Download Open image “History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.” — Eamon Duffy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contradictory History Messy Tangled
The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering. — David Grann Copy Share Image
History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past. — Winston Churchill 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
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable. — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide… — Eamon Duffy Copy Share Image
Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present. — Eamon Duffy Copy Share Image
If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new. — Eamon Duffy Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory?… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Away from Lev, she craves his need for her. When with him, it enervates. Why is that? She cannot help it. Nothing to be… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
When faced with a loss, it is no use trying to recover what has gone. On the other hand, a great space has been… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white people for two contradictory reasons: a] he constantly proclaims belief in human equality, but… — Steve Sailer Copy Share Image
It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides and refrain… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
A girl asks her doctor, "Doctor, I've forgotten to take my contradictory pill!" The doctor says: "Are you ignorant?" The girl says: "Yes, three… — Frank Carson Copy Share Image
