"The next worse thing to a battle lost…" — Simon Schama

"The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won."

57 Quotes by Simon Schama

Simon Schama has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness…
There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its…
From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the…
Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first…
DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
What can art really do in the face of atrocity?
Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed…
Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is...…
The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War,…

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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men… — Chinua Achebe
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is… — James A. Baldwin
It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain… — Gerry Adams
Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking… — Drew Barrymore
You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally… — Scott Adams
Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. — Ezra Taft Benson
Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam,… — Annie Besant
Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. — Ambrose Bierce
By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir… — Theodore Bikel
But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness,… — Buffalo Bill
This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world… — Tony Blair
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a… — Erma Bombeck

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