Good history Quote by Thomas Hardy Download Open image “War makes rattling good history.” — Thomas Hardy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Good history Good war Peace Total war War
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach. As a rule, we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good. — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“War isn't about making history war is about breaking the present.” — Christoforos Darbinian Copy Share Image
“He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She was in a sound sleep, Jude, dying of anxiety lest she should have caught a chill which might permanently injure her, was glad… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It was mid-May time, bringing with it weather not, perhaps, quite so blooming as that assumed to be natural to the month by the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It being the first time in his life that he had touched female fingers under water, Dick duly registered the sensation as rather a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“As soon as she could discern the outline of the house, it had all its old effect upon Tess's imagination. Part of her body… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson… — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image
Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a… — Benjamin Hooks Copy Share Image
For almost half a century, Fermilab has occupied center stage as physicists have sought to understand the fundamental structure of the universe. The lab… — James Trefil Copy Share Image
The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain;… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
The Gospel is ‘Good News’, not ‘Good History’, because when it’s preached, it happens. — Reinhard Bonnke Copy Share Image
The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to… — Louis Moreau Gottschalk Copy Share Image
If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. — James Buchan Copy Share Image
