#history

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#answerable #comes #creative #creative act #eden

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned. ↗

— John Brown Gordon

#cruelly #ever #history #maligned #misunderstood

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist. ↗

— Mike Gordon

#collaborators #great #history #lot #lyricist

Humans are capable of so much more. Power mongers like you have stripped away what is most valuable to us, the importance of our heritage and family values. We have been robbed of this, blinded by your authority, while you encourage us to burry ourselves in debt and rely on our corrupt governments. Men and women around the world have been forced to work long hours to keep up with inflated debts, all the while abandoning the families they struggle to support. History repeats, and repeats. It’s time to break the cycle and start anew. ↗

— Aaron B. Powell

#history-repeating-itself #politics #science-fiction #family

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline. ↗

— Andy Grove

#change #company #decline #dramatically #history

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? ↗

— John Guare

#bad #become #did #history #live

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. ↗

— Philip Guedalla

#historians #history #history repeats itself #itself #other

For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind. ↗

— Umberto Guidoni

#countries #first #first time #goal #history

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. ↗

— William Halsey

#circumstances #deal #extraordinary #extraordinary circumstances #forced

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

#another #busily #day #dictation #geography