“I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.”
Source: City of Ashes
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“I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.”
“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.”
“The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.”
“God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.”
Source: Another Roadside Attraction
“If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.”
Source: Four Novels by James Joyce
“The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?”
“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”
Source: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays
Source: The Tractatus According to Its Own Form
Source: Decision Points
Source: Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren: A Literary Correspondence
Source: Negro Makers of History
Source: Bookless In Baghdad
“To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.”
“Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)
“If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development”
“History is the propaganda of the victors.”
Source: Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel
“There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.”
Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection
“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
Source: The Power of a Praying Woman Deluxe Edition
“I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.”
“You can't be neutral on a moving train.”
Source: Marx in Soho: A Play on History
“I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.”
“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
Source: Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest