Funny Quote by Robert Penn Warren Download Open image “More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.” — Robert Penn Warren ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funny History Inspirational Love Past Time
“There is no history; there is only biography,” Emerson once wrote.” — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.” — arundhati roy Copy Share Image
“those who are very good at predicting the past will think of themselves as good at predicting the future,” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“so why study history? unlike physics and economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“A thorough knowledge of the past could lead a profound scholar to predict the future course of history with great accuracy, provided that it… — Aubrey Menen Copy Share Image
If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“The child comes home and the parent puts the hooks in him. The old man, or the woman, as the case may be, hasn’t… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain. I was in the car. And I was glad… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“No, the Boss corrected, I'm not a lawyer. I know some law. ... but I'm not a lawyer. That's why I can see what… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Those were the ones which would turn loose their grip on the branch before long-- not in any breeze, the fibers would just relax,… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“He thought of night coming on. He thought of the loneliness of tonight, this first night in the ground. This, he thought, was the… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I look at my awesome twitter followers & think to myself, What the hell would I do without them :) — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Facebook on going public with all my private information... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image