#history

Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy ↗

— Evan Thomas

#history #life

They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#history #mankind #men #pity #men

Today’s youngsters will unfortunately never know the thrills we experienced dubbing movies in the era of Rashomon. ↗

— Teruyo Nogami

#history #movies #rashomon #movies

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#harder #history #hopeless #i #just

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#appearance #artificial #background #book #calculated

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#economic #economic recovery #financial #financial system #get

You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#current #feeling #feels #history #irreverent

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq. ↗

— Joe Biden

#days #goes #history #iraq #lot

Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history. ↗

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

#important #less #many #our #part

Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#building #considers #fatherland #first #first time