History Quote by Helen Macdonald Download Open image ““History and hawks and hoods and the implications of taking something's sight away to calm it.”” — Helen Macdonald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“My father says he doesn't like hawks because they swoop down on mice and other defenseless desert creatures. He can't stand the thought of… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
“Then, with the barricades complete, the posts assigned, the muskets loaded, the lookouts placed, alone in these fearful streets in which there were now… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The quick reflexes, the calmness in the face of a storm, the ability to think in the midst of danger that most people don’t… — Mike Foster Copy Share Image
“When we observe how the world affects us and let our defenses rest, when we consider the context of our greater history, we have… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“No sane person could witness what they saw every day in the field, or carry out the acts of violence they were tasked with,… — Ronie Kendig Copy Share Image
“You cannot pay attention to silence without simultaneously becoming still within.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“We were now in the midst of dangerous abstractions which might once more threaten further embarrassments of the kind I hoped to avoid.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“A groundswell of silence moved between us. Trouble on the surface and even deeper currents beneath.” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“The sense of an unseen order, brooding attentively over our lives, restores purpose to individual acts of concern.” — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
“We need to think hard about what we really want so as to avoid endangering ourselves – especially now that we can not only… — Read trepreneur Copy Share Image
“A forced silence is a dangerous imposter, painting a canvas of safety while plotting our demise.” — Jo Ann Fore Copy Share Image
“And I was sure it was the drink that irrigated White’s self-sabotage, for it is the common trait of alcoholics to make plans and promises, to oneself, to others, fervently, sincerely, and in hope of redemption. Promises that are broken, again and again, through fear, through loss of nerve, through any number of things that hide that deep desire, at… — Helen Macdonald Copy Share
“White called Prisonface to life in order that he should suffer, be punished, mocked, reduced to rags and die.” — Helen Macdonald Copy Share Image
“You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise,… — Helen Macdonald Copy Share Image
“And when I look again she seems neither bird nor reptile, but a creature shaped by a million years of evolution for a life… — Helen Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Riding out with the Old Surrey and Burstow Hunt, White recorded the first time he saw a kill with distanced fascination. The fox was dug out of a drain where it had taken refuge and thrown to the hounds. They tore it to pieces while a circle of human onlookers 'screeched them on'. The humans, White thought, were disgusting, their… — Helen Macdonald Copy Share
“He did all the right things: flew aeroplanes, shot, fished for salmon, hunted; and even better, all the wrong things: kept grass snakes in… — Helen Macdonald Copy Share Image
“I couldn't keep the dimensions of my car in my head. Or my own, for I kept having accidents. I cracked cups. I dropped plates. Fell over. Broke a toe on a door-jamb. I was as clumsy as I had been as a child. But when I was busy with Mabel I was never clumsy. The world with the hawk… — Helen Macdonald Copy Share
“He was a complicated man, and an unhappy one. But he knew also that the world was full of simple miracles.” — Helen Macdonald Copy Share Image
“It wasn't just that I saw in his book, reflected backwards and dimly, my own retreat into wildness. It was this: of all the… — Helen Macdonald Copy Share Image
“and it was there, standing on the edge of a village playing field, that I gratefully stepped into novicehood again, as if I had… — Helen Macdonald Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the… — Angela Merkel Copy Share
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share