History Quote by Mal Peet Download Open image ““instead of being in history he was in love”” — Mal Peet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Love
“This is what I most humbly feel, If you do not love me, history will!” — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
“History as a whole is the struggle between love and the inability to love, between love and the refusal to love.” — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“History has shown us time and time again that you don't have to know someone to love them with all your heart.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“He wanted to meet history face-to-face. He wanted to be the blood in its veins, as it was in his” — Ryan Graudin Copy Share Image
“Love was something he had banished from his life years ago out of necessity, but she made him yearn to be loved.” — Stacy Reid Copy Share Image
“And, everyone knows, to tolerate a person telling you about his childhood it is necessary to be in love with him.” — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“he never was known to have a sweetheart; he had not time to be in love.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“because he was the man he was, one strong thing came out of the confusion: love. ‘Love’ had caused him trouble in the recent… — Andre Alexis Copy Share Image
History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“You do not win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making sure that some poor bastard dies for… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“This line of reasoning could have frightened him, but it did not. He gained a certain strength from it. Because, after all, what can… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, however, weapons of mass destruction tend to attract maniacs: men - it's almost always men - who want to jab the red button… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“Boredom had not been among the dangers that the SOE had prepared him for. No pompous little officer had stood in front of his… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“Wagstaff was a trim little man in a dark-blue uniform with an armband embroidered with the words CIVIL DEFENSE. "Thank you, Headmaster, and good… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you something. When there is a penalty kick, most people think that the penalty taker is in control. But they are… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“Sprawled, bloody, holding the pistol, he looked like a police photograph of a suicide. Dart went back to his chair and picked up the… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“I can explain to you why algebra is useful. But that is not what algebra is really for.' He moved his fingers gently on… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“It still, after all these years, puts frost into my blood to remember that men like LeMay and Powers had their fingers so close… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present.… — Mal Peet 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