#history

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore. ↗

— Geoffrey Beene

#concealed #everything #greatest #history #knew

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#does #feel #going #historians #history

I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life. ↗

— Maria Bello

#beauty #change #coaster #constancy #could

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#common language #effect #every #history #language

You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history. ↗

— Pat Benatar

#history #trash #want #you #your

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#being #biggest #carpenter #cinema #content

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#came #evil #genocide #history #how

Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#appearance #archetypal #belongs #conditions #divine

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#always #any #been #cheerful #history

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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