Biographies Quote by John Arbuthnot Download Open image “Biography is one of the new terrors of death.” — John Arbuthnot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biographies Biography Death Terror
Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates. — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
“In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever be known… — Ira Bruce Nadel Copy Share Image
A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history. — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject. — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
King is a title which translated into several languages, signifies a magistrate with as many different degrees of power as there are kingdoms in… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to a great… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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