History Quote by Thomas Paine

“It is a tale that is told, from which we may draw the knowledge and comprehension needed for the future. The disproportion between the…

— Winston Churchill

“This was one lesson that the war taught me - that every event in time presents opportunities that are recognizable only to those with…

— F. Sionil José

“We continue the chain of generations and, knowingly or not, willingly or unwillingly, we pay debts of the past: as long as we have…

— Anne Ancelin Schutzenburger

“You can rescue someone from danger, but not from change and death; the soldier who survives the battle becomes someone else, something else, somewhere…

— Rebecca Solnit

“good works gathered in a thousand ages, such as deeds of generosity, or offerings to the blissful ones, a single flash of anger shatters…

— Shantideva

“I KNOW that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I…

— W.B. Yeats

“Better to keep it in the old heads, where no one can see it or suspect it. We are all bits and pieces of…

— Ray Bradbury

“This is what is meant by possession - to be passionately at war for the qualities in one another to contend for the treasures…

— Lawrence Durrell

“I suppose we were merely on loan in each other's lives; these last years have already broken their secrets, have already gone out ahead…

— Jenny Boully

“Many are the hearts               that are weary tonight,        Wishing for the war to cease …”

— Mary Pope Osborne

“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me, the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite…

— Charles Dickens

“The memory of war was fading into the past as a nightmare vanishes with the dawn; soon it would lie outside the experience of…

— Arthur C Clarke