History Quote by Lionel Shriver Download Open image ““I am a bundle of other people's histories, a creature of circumstance.”” — Lionel Shriver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“My goal is to make history come alive. My fictitious characters are woven into the tapestry of actual history.” — C.B. Huesing Copy Share Image
“The concept of a person is that of a character abstracted from a history.” — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“Who defined me? My culture, a culture of mercy, a living codex. I am a unique culture of one, from everywhere. I am her… — Alice Notley Copy Share Image
“History was drenched in blood. But it also had cooperation and kindness, generosity, intermarriage.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“There is a reason history has, at its heart, the narrative of one's life.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Our histories never unfold in isolation. We cannot truly tell what we consider to be our own histories without knowing the other stories. And… — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
“History teaches us many things. Most importantly, the things that made us who and what we are.” — Robert Bonville Copy Share Image
“And He meets us in our hardship, carries us through, and reveals the beauty of His kingdom.” — Courtney Westlake Copy Share Image
“Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.” — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“The circumstances of life-the events of life-the people around me in life-do not make me the way I am. They reveal the way I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I’m a journalist, and journalists need news. Deprive them of it, and they go a bit barking. Deprive them of news long enough, and… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“One of the things I learned with Charles," said Gray carefully, "was that finding someone like you does not necessarily mean that either of… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“The idea is that you don't only have one destiny. Younger and younger, kids are pressed to decide what they want to do with… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.' — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I think that's the biggest favor you can grant anyone, don't you? Permission to be dull. I know Henry will sometimes say something so… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303” — Lionel Shriver 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… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
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… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
