#history

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage. ↗

— Gemma Ward

#history #kind #lots #models #passage

For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don't know my neighbors, where people don't necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I'm missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger, the exchanges between people, the caring and the shared history with people. ↗

— Sela Ward

#between #care #caring #exchanges #fed

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. ↗

— Simone Weil

#because #compulsions #conscious #crowd #dynamic

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#almost #future #imagination #much #past

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. ↗

— Rebecca West

#difference #hard #history #skunk #smell

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#aside #been #does #ever #great

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter. ↗

— George Will

#affairs #american #american media #fine #his

Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history. ↗

— Fred Willard

#history #hometown #indians #narrow #rich

For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#country #create #democracy #democratic #embodies

A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#also #back #been #clearly #history