Accept Quote by Rene Girard

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

— Maynard James Keenan

I think I was in the most historical and golden era of track and field.

— Edwin Moses

I'm basically an optimist because I do think there's this historical modernisation process, and by and large it's been very beneficial to people. But…

— Francis Fukuyama

“I don't expect to have a fully verified story of how Jo's disorder developed, but I don't think that historical accuracy is as important…

— Joan Frances Casey

There's always a temptation, I think, among some historical writers to shade things toward the modern point of view. You know, they won't show…

— Diana Gabaldon

As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.

— Philip Yancey

When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up…

— Susanna Clarke

“And I sometimes think that a moment of touching is the difference between complete utter despair and the ability to carry on.”

— Eleanor Cameron

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or…

— Mikhail Bakunin

It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition…

— Peter Medawar

“So you would think that at this moment, I would be in utter despair. Here's what's strange. The main thing I feel is a…

— Suzanne Collins

A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter…

— Stephen King