#story

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down. ↗

— Tim Vine

#down #glue #history #i #put

So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#back #been #carrying #china #history

You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don't have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#facts #good #hard #hard life #i

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ↗

— Abba Eban

#behave #exhausted #history #men #nations

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. ↗

— Abba Eban

#first #history #i #i think #morrow

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#bought #furniture #good #good idea #having

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#children #i #live #me #mother

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#been #could #did #had #how

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#favors #history #human #human history #natural

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#battlefield #job #leading #lieutenant #most