#history

I would sum up the German character best by saying that they are the best of losers and the worst of winners. ↗

— Edmund Ironside

#germany #history #world-war-ii #world-war-ii

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#book #corner #curl #dusty #habit

The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it's a very different movie. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#catherine #different #first #george #history

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#art #baths #big #bubble #doing

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis. ↗

— Michael Apted

#britain #enigma #great #history #invaded

In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. ↗

— Julian Assange

#being #claimed #history #material #nobody

Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#am #archaeology #astronomy #based #basis

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#bearing #being #birth #body #book

History provides no precise guidelines. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#history #precise #provides

Suddenly all those individuals who yesterday felt that "we" meant only their families, their professions, or perhaps their communities, become men of the nation. Their emotions and thoughts, their egos, that "something" within them, all are transformed: they have become historical. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#iron-logic #organic #family