Business Quote by Stacy Schiff Download Open image ““It is a dangerous thing to have the same men in both the prophecy and the history business.”” — Stacy Schiff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Business History
“Prophecy is history unfulfilled, and history is prophecy fulfilled.” — Dwight Lyman Moody Copy Share Image
“I like what Flaubert once wrote. History is prophecy, looking backwards.” — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
“history’s just old news, prophecy that’s well past its sell-by date.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“That is the nature of prophecy... Prophecy will bite your prick off every time.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“...they all were, in the grip of a huge fantasy: the idea that men would not be judged by who they once were and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Each man's destiny is personal only insofar as it may happen to resemble what is already in his memory.” — Eduardo Mallea Copy Share Image
“Forget the stupid prophecy. This is the destiny I was supposed to have.” — Tui T. Sutherland Copy Share Image
“They spoke what they thought. What they said became prophecies. Their prophecies became curses. And these curses became the fine line dividing life and… — Rahul Shrivastava Copy Share Image
“All this is the flimsiest speculation, which is God’s gift to historical fictioneers.” — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“She did not believe Fate as painstaking as her husband; she was more inclined to take matters into her own hands. She had ample… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
What we know about Cleopatra's looks is based purely on her coin portraits. Engraving was imperfect, and that when you are a ruler and… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did. — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Against a powerful enchantress there is no contest. Against a woman who ensnares a man in the coils of her serpentine intelligence - in… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Nabokov complained he was afflicted with total recall, an affliction of which he could be miraculously cured by the presence of a biographer.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Véra assumed her married name almost as a stage name; rarely has matrimony so much represented a profession. It was one of the ironies… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere. — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words. — Sunil Nagaraj Copy Share Image
Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I… — Ryan Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then… — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image