#story

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth. ↗

— Gerald Vann

#distorting #history #long #long succession #say

During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#economic #francisco #history #intense #lived

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke. ↗

— Doug Wilder

#history #involvement #joke #nation #nothing

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

#crisis #economic #economic crisis #face #get

History does not always repeat itself. ↗

— John W. Campbell

#does #history #itself #repeat

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#begun #bring #burning #darkness #go

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#crimes #follies #indeed #little #mankind

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#before #genre #grew #head #i

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#author #become #books #could #down

A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it. ↗

— Irving Thalberg

#fellow #good #looks #never #other