#ife

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals. ↗

— Michael Rostovtzeff

#confined #crises #generals #great #historical

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#conduct #conscious #destiny #fully #hinge

I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac. ↗

— Ray Liotta

#everyone #fight #grade #i #life

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive. ↗

— Philip Roth

#just #life #period #short #short period

With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring. ↗

— Philip Roth

#boring #college #direction #draft #everybody

I don't know what kind of great I'm bound to be," Dove considered his prospects calmly, "all I know for certain is I'm born a world-shaker. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#identity #prospects-on-life #life

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. ↗

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

#artist #beautiful #beautiful art #dream #every

Booty Butt, Booty Butt, Booty Butt Cheeks ↗

— René Descartes

#he-actually-said-this-i-promise #real-true-to-life-facts #life

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#danger #him #idleness #intercourse #into

I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way. ↗

— Karl Rove

#back #before #campaigns #clients #consulting