History Quote by Tod Wodicka Download Open image ““History...a release from the troublesome promiscuous present.”” — Tod Wodicka ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Promiscuous Release Troublesome
“History is a tissue of base and cruel acts in the midst of which a few drops of purity sparkle at long intervals.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that delighted and… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The archival document is a tear in the fabric of time, an unplanned glimpse offered into an unexpected event.” — Arlette Farge Copy Share Image
“History, which is a simple whore, has no decisive moments but is a proliferation of instants, brief interludes that vie with one another in… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Sweat, malice, and hunger pour from me. This is release, or maybe it's just a plea for release.” — Rachel Cohn David Levithan Copy Share Image
“The received truth of history is shot through and falsified by unknown secrets carried to the grave.” — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“History is not what happened but what you are told has happened, irrespective of what is true.” — Elspeth Marr Copy Share Image
“At this point, I see the unfortunate recipient of this impromptu history lecture begin to doze and I move on to my next unwilling… — Tom Parker Bowles Copy Share Image
“History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the power of… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“In medieval times, contrary to popular belief, most knights were bandits, mercenaries, lawless brigands, skinners, highwaymen, and thieves. The supposed chivalry of Charlemagne and… — Tod Wodicka Copy Share Image
“The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical paradise lazing… — Tod Wodicka Copy Share Image
“The country was a dreamland; and perhaps it even reminded my wife's grandfather of the night he woke up drunk in his friend's house,… — Tod Wodicka Copy Share Image
“The schoolroom clock was worn raw by stares; and you couldn't look up at the big Puritanical face of it and not feel the… — Tod Wodicka Copy Share Image
“It was difficult to imagine that a full day hadn't yet passed since we boarded the airliner in New York. I paused. Medieval man… — Tod Wodicka Copy Share Image
“But loving Tristan often felt like loving something once removed. He could be cold and indifferent to others' suffering, especially if he was causing… — Tod Wodicka Copy Share Image
“Will this be in the examination, Mr Hecker?" was the limit of my students' interest in any given subject. If it was going to… — Tod Wodicka Copy Share Image
“In all these sights I achieve solace only in bringing forth trees, picturing them blooming like smoke from the roofs of gutted buildings, dreaming… — Tod Wodicka Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
