"I am strongly of the opinion that chronology……" — Simon Schama
"I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for."
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57 Quotes by Simon Schama
Simon Schama has 57 quotes on this site.
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But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness…
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There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
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From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its…
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From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the…
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Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
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The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
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I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first…
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DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
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What can art really do in the face of atrocity?
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Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed…
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Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is...…
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More Arc Quotes
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one of 140 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
— Rob Bell
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Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
— Charles Bukowski
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
— Martin Amis
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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures.…
— Pema Chodron
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Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who…
— Dave Barry
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Each arc of color may be lovely to behold, but it is the full spectrum of our woman rainbow that…
— Merlin Stone
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When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards,…
— Hermann von Helmholtz
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Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something…
— Nancy Kress
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When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and…
— Dante Alighieri
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After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some…
— Brittany Snow
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