Century Quote by Julian Fellowes Download Open image “I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.” — Julian Fellowes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Century Merit Periods Thinking
“Historical periodization always tells a story. It is a narrative device for putting meaning into the flux of historical process - creating protagonists, heroes, pace, and plot. For this reason, the division of history into periods always carries an ideological load, and it is a methodological imperative to approach questions of broad historical periodization with this in mind.” — James Ferguson Copy Share
Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
I believe history of humankind has always faced challenges. I don't think that any other period in history was less problematic then the one… — Lara Fabian Copy Share Image
If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I honestly feel, that difficult periods can be used as a means for radical rethinking and reconnection with some of the fundamental qualities that… — Lawrence English Copy Share Image
You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.” — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven years. The… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“The longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.” — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“How many of us, having cried bitter, rancid tears over a failed love, are actually disappointed when we discover, seeing the adored one again, that all trace of their power over us is gone? How often one has resisted the freedom-giving knowledge that they have actually begun to irritate us as that seems like the worst kind of disloyalty to… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share
I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker it's very… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any benefits. And yet, he's thinking… — Pico Iyer Copy Share
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no… — George Orwell Copy Share
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been… — James A. Garfield Copy Share
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
