#history

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. ↗

— Moliere

#blunders #books #dancing #failures #fill

If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#choice #concentrate #couple #films #had

I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture. ↗

— Thurston Moore

#culture #extended #formed #great #history

We're all very sensitive that Jim has the shortest history with the band. He wants to be somewhat of a free agent. I'm just going to let time dictate how Jim's future evolves. ↗

— Thurston Moore

#band #dictate #evolves #free #free agent

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#alone #any #assistants #case #creates

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#historical #history #hitherto #important #point

Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#beard #detested #economic #economic forces #evolution

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#causes #coming #cultivated #essential #experience

The great thing about Pete and Peggy's storyline is that you barely have to do anything. There's so much there, so much history, that you can have them exchange a look and it's so loaded. So you honestly don't have to do anything. ↗

— Elizabeth Moss

#anything #barely #exchange #great #great thing

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#era #history #integration #new #our