Quotes About History

Even your breakfast burrito plays a role; Lieberman's investigations had revealed that as our diet shifted over the centuries from chewy stuff like raw roots and wild game and gave way to mushy cooked staples like spaghetti and ground beef, our faces began to shrink. Ben Franklin's face was chunkier than yours; Caesar's was bigger than his.

Just because men and women of our era don't live up to the myths doesn't mean no one ever has, or ever will again.

Urique. As a mining village whose best days

But in 1977, the United States separated itself from every other government in history by vilifying meat and pushing grains, which were traditionally used to fatten cattle. Soon after, America's obesity rate shot up and hasn't stopped.

Because if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

Meanwhile, in Boston, Running While Female was literally a crime: any woman who dared attempt the Boston Marathon in the 1960s was subject to arrest by the cops or, if your dad was in charge, a beating. "If that girl were my daughter, I would spank her," race director Will Cloney famously snarled after Kathrine Switzer finagled her way onto the course in 1967.

So simple," he said. "Just move your legs. Because if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

The friend of wisdom is also a friend of the myth. —ARISTOTLE

Just move your legs. Because if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

He was born Michael Randall Hickman,

if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

Podríamos, literalmente, poner freno a las epidemias con este único remedio —me dijo. Levantó dos dedos haciendo el signo de la paz, luego los giró lentamente hacia abajo y empezó a moverlos como si estuvieran trotando en el espacio. El Hombre Corredor. —Así de sencillo —dijo— solo moviendo las piernas. Porque si no creemos que hemos nacido para correr, no solo estamos negando la historia, estamos negando lo que somos.

Until now, we would say that the Greeks fight like heroes. From now on, we will say that heroes fight like Greeks. —WINSTON CHURCHILL, 1941

Il mondo ha stampato libri per 450 anni, eppure la polvere da sparo ha tuttora una più larga diffusione. Non importa! L'inchiostro da stampa è il più grande esplosivo: vincerà.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Respect the past; you never know how it may affect you.

Historically, the gods of an existing religion become the demons of the conquering religion. That doesn't make one evil and the other good, it just means that one tribe is better at waging war than the other.

Although acting inconsistently with one's own implicit interests and developmental trends can sometimes pay off, the data suggest that those who ignore their deeper impulses, curiosities, and values typically experience sub-optimal outcomes. For example, the latter types tend not to be the ones who make a mark on history.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

Listen to me. We've been had." "By whom? How?" "Toby Stonewood. He's played us from the start." "Toby? The Duke of Suffolk?" "One and the same." Simon couldn't stand how the English never wanted to believe the worst of their landed gentry. Even the most casual perusal of English history showed them to be venal, dishonest, and without scruples. And those were the good ones.

The pages of history are red with the blood of illuminated "saints" who were murdered by their religions for actually achieving the advertised spiritual rewards.

Art is innovation, and its history cannot be written except from a distance sufficiently great to perceive form and form-ratio. One might answer that art today is still an incessant violation of codes. But how are those violations legible if no one code ever settles into common use, that is, starts to behave like a language or another convention-based system for getting things done; like a style, in other words? There can be no artistic innovation unless someone else is not innovating.

History is not a conversation with the past, Instead, in Warburg, memory is carried forward to us, objectively, by the sequence of pathos-formulas. We do not choose our past, it chooses us. This was not an entirely direful story. The pathos-formulas register danger but they also ward it off, apotropaically. Art creates the psychic distance that gives mankind a chance in its struggle with hostile nature or with the gods.

As is so often the case, shapings of history designed to bring out lost sources of vitality call upon fictions of ethnicity or race as their medium.