#history

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#approach #characters #endow #female #female characters

Yeah, I love history and I loved it as a kid. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#i #i love #kid #love #loved

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#assign #born #climates #common #countless

Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history. ↗

— John W. Vessey, Jr.

#caught #forces #get #history #small

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#history #our #revolt #right #sources

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#cabinet #construction #endeavor #history #neither

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#because #change #conditions #essentials #events

Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#broke #english #fine #fingers #get

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#history #i #influence #lies #logic

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#fleeting #forever #glory #obscurity