Quotes About History

We explore their erotic templates, how their emotional history expresses itself in the physicality of sex. "Tell me how you were loved and I will know a lot about how you make love" is one of my guiding questions. Unearthing these issues helps to release the sexual blocks.

he was blindly ignorant of history and therefore did not fear his role in it

Unlike Grand Hotel and Titanic, but like The Wild Party and Sweet Smell of Success, our last special show was a failure. However, the previous two titles at least ran a few months. Amour (2002) lasted two weeks. This is a historically instructive show even so in its return to first principles, as a modern version of what Jacques Offenbach was doing when he invented musical comedy in the 1850s and '60s: not in his format but in his spirit.

If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.

Bad ages to live through are good ages to learn from.

In the case of the movie High Noon, it is obvious that the viewers are not held by their intrinsic interest in the history of the American frontier, in law enforcement, or in noon trains.

Let him come! I have seen them come before -- at Margesfontein, Spion Kiopje, Modder River. Stepping into battle, left right left right, waving their silly swords, so afraid they couldn't show off how brave they was, and with mine rifle I kills them so easy!

Our fears are informed by history and economics, by social power and stigma, by myths and nightmares. And as with other strongly held beliefs, our fears are dear to us. When we encounter information that contradicts our beliefs, as Slovic found in one of his studies, we tend to doubt the information, not ourselves.

We took 350 billion snaps in 2011 and an astonishing 1.5 trillion in 2013—more than all the photos ever taken before in all of history.

The camera has a short memory. But the pen remembers forever.

Every evil weaves itself into the fabric of history, never to be undone. Yet at the same time—at the very same time—each of us gets a new soul with which to start the world again. It

If there are frightful monsters in fairy tales, they do not frighten you now, because that kind of monster is no longer going about the world, whatever he may have done long, long ago. He has been turned into stone, and you may see his remains in museums.

The argument of this book is that there is plenty of evidence, as demonstrated in the previous pages, that the Windsors were not foolish and naïve, but actively engaged with the German intrigues.

The Duke was strongly pro-German, indeed considered himself almost German, telling Diana Mosley, 'Every drop of blood in my veins is German.'15 He spoke German fluently and sometimes referred to it as his mother tongue and had spent most of his summers before the First World War visiting German relatives. The murder of his Russian relations in 1918 had had a profound influence on him and he always considered communism as the real threat to Britain's interests and empire.

So you would kill Old Ireland?" Anna Livia said. "You would kill yourself, for without Old Ireland, you wouldn't be.

My dream is that by returning to our not-so-distant history, I might remind readers why, with all its faults, this is a lucky place to be living in, and one we can be quietly proud of.

Science strides ahead; politics stumbles around like a drunk. We saw it in the age of discovery and the age of empire, but it was particularly glaring in the twentieth century – and, I would add (so far), the twenty-first too.

The death-tolls during the last years of the Qing dynasty and in China's forty years of non-Communist republican government are impossible to be precise about, but the figures are estimated to be very large.

Gutenberg had died after inventing Europe's first real printing press. The Chinese and Koreans had long used wood-block printing, and even ceramic printing.

Em apenas vinte e cinco anos, Gengis Khan conquistou uma área maior da superfície da Terra do que aquela que os Romanos conseguiram em quatro séculos, criando (mesmo que por um período muito reduzido) o maior império terrestre da História.

Writing a history of the world is a ridiculous thing to do. The amount of information is too vast for any individual to absorb, the reading limitless and the likelihood of error immense. The only case for doing it, and for reading it, is that not having a sense of world history is even more ridiculous.

We probably wiped out other human types, we certainly wiped out other mammals; and throughout our history we have, in the intervals between making art and love, tried very hard to wipe out each other. We began, and we remain, agents of instability.

Por fim, as acções invasivas da própria colonização destruíram os impérios nativos da Mesoamérica e as culturas costeiras da América do Norte e provocaram vagas de migração. Longe de ser «intemporal» e «indómita», como se pretendia, a América tinha sido um continente bem povoado. A chegada de europeus, do ponto de vista dos habitantes originais, foi uma das grandes catástrofes da História.

Diz-se que entre os seus alunos alexandrinos esteve Arquimedes, o matemático e engenheiro que, reza a lenda, foi morto por um soldado romano após o cerco de Siracusa porque se recusou a abandonar um problema que estava a estudar - «Não venha interferir com os meus círculos», teria ele dito.