Quotes About History

It was easy to imagine longbowmen cutting their staves from that tree before marching off to Crecy and Agincourt, and still the job was not done, still the French needed to be reminded of their essential inferiority – perhaps they were just slow learners. The

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

And that survey is the one we all go back to. When you find one of their original corners, it is like a handshake with the past.

Tõesti, kuidas see niimoodi olla saab, et inimesed pole siiamaani võinud uudistada mõnda Kalevipoja pilti, nii et nad peavad muuseumis vahtima kes teab mis kükloope ja kentaure ja Ristija Johannese maharaiutud pead! Siis pole ime, et me räägime omavahel saksa keeles. Mis rahvas me selline oleme, kui omaenese jumalad ja vägimehed ära unustame ning peame lohutust otsima portselanist hiirtest ja kilpkonnadest!

You might almost think that the forest is itself to blame for the people leaving its midst, because it behaves like a conqueror, spreading out in the footsteps of its former master.

I was wandering in time, and entered a door to the past just before it closed over.

If the ability to make use of experience and draw conclusions decided, we would have forgotten what war is a long time ago. But those whose goal is war have never been held back, nor will be, by experience or analogy.

It was as you said: what you used to be means more to people than what you are.

If the ability to make use of experience and draw conclusions decided, we would have forgotten what war is a long time ago. But those whose goal is war have never been held back, nor will be, by experience or analogy." "So…

Everything has been, everything has happened. And everything has already been written about.

the honest truth and faithful history of a world where he who shatters the skulls of others most efficiently and swells women's bellies fastest, reign

Si notre capacité à tirer profit de notre expérience et à en retenir les leçons était décisive, nous aurions oublié depuis longtemps ce qu'est la guerre. Mais aucune expérience, aucune analogie n'est parvenue à empêcher ceux qui veulent la guerre de la faire, et il en sera toujours ainsi.

Everything has been, everything has happened. And everything has already been written about. Vysogota of Corvo

Why have you gone so red, crimson as a poppy? You wanted to know, didn't you? So you've got the honest truth and faithful history of a world where he who shatters the skulls of others most efficiently and swells women's bellies fastest reigns. And it's just as hard to compete with you people in murdering as it is in screwing—

Se a decidere fosse la capacità di fare tesoro delle esperienze passate e di trarre le giuste conclusioni, ci saremmo scordati da un pezzo che cos'è la guerra. Ma esperienze e analogie non hanno mai fermato né fermeranno i guerrafondai.

So you've got the honest truth and faithful history of a world where he who shatters the skulls of others most efficiently and swells women's bellies fastest, reigns.

what you used to be means more to people than what you are.

Dlaczego kraj, który i tak ma nieustannie przesrane – bo a to Ruscy, a to Niemcy, a to Tatarzy, a to w?asna szlachta, a to w?asna g?upota – dodatkowo straumatyzowano najwi?ksz? tragedi? ostatnich stuleci?!

Najwi?kszym k?opotem Polski jest to, ?e sama siebie pu?ci z torbami. I nie b?dzie do tego potrzebny ?aden ?yd, tak jak nie trzeba by?o ?adnego rosyjskiego zamachu, ?eby rozbi? Polsk? i urz?dzi? jej ma?? wojn? domow?.

Rewolucja to nie by? ?aden Marks naprawiaj?cy ?wiat, tylko skundlony Tamerlan w pogoni za drobiem i czasomierzami.

It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.

In the long run, it is much easier to undo the policies of crooked leadership than to restore common sense and wisdom to a deceived population willing to elect such a leader in the first place. Any country can survive having chosen a fool as their leader. But history has shown time and again that a nation of fools is surely doomed.