Events Quote by Walter Lord Download Open image “Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.” — Walter Lord ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Events Guides Time
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Seen and unseen, the great and the unknown tumbled together in a writhing heap as the bow plunged deeper and the stern rose higher.” — Walter Lord Copy Share Image
“Robertson called his ship the Titan; the White Star Line called its ship the Titanic. This is the story of her last night.” — Walter Lord Copy Share Image
“It is a rash man indeed who would set himself up as final arbiter on all that happened the incredible night the Titanic went… — Walter Lord Copy Share Image
“Before the Titanic, all was quiet. Afterward all was tumult. That is why, to anybody who lived at the time, the Titanic more than… — Walter Lord Copy Share Image
It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like… — Walter Lord Copy Share Image
“The night was a magnificent confirmation of "women and children first," yet somehow the loss rate was higher for Third Class children than First… — Walter Lord Copy Share Image
Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just… — Walter Lord Copy Share Image
“Gentry crept out. There, stuck in the slime a few feet away, was a huge unexploded bomb. It was about the size of a… — Walter Lord Copy Share Image
You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect. — Walter Lord Copy Share Image
Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake. — Walter Lord Copy Share Image
“This was the era when gentlemen formally offered their services to "unprotected ladies" at the start of an Atlantic voyage.” — Walter Lord Copy Share Image
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
My political views have never made me insensitive to the pain and suffering caused to the innocent victims of events such as the Warrington… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make… — Laurence Silberman Copy Share Image
I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
History employs evolution to structure biological events in time. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
