"History is nothing if not an epic tale……" — Graydon Carter

"History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities."

— Graydon Carter

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77 Quotes by Graydon Carter

Graydon Carter has 77 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a…
People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice,…
Many men think they're playboys, but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends, and…
Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically…
Life is all about seating and lighting.
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence.…
After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived…
As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.
As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.
Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a…
Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.
Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

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More Epic Quotes

This quote is filed under Epic Quotes, one of 389 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks. — Michelle Bachelet
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. — Douglas Adams
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. — Walter Benjamin
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. — A. Whitney Brown
Absence - that common cure of love. — Lord Byron
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in… — Agatha Christie
Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic… — Diablo Cody
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an… — Lascelles Abercrombie
There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. — Kevin J. Anderson
All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot… — Alain LeRoy Locke

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