#story

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#east #failure #feudalism #frustration #history

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before. ↗

— Arthur Hailey

#also #been #before #began #did

She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was. ↗

— Maile Meloy

#short-story #spy-vs-spy #family

As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write, might achieve esteem and success equal to her great novel, but that its emotional heart would lie in her own unhappiness for having failed to find the one thing she wanted. For the first time she was a character in her own writing, and her frailties and mistakes were trapped on the page by the beauty and unsparing focus of her prose. Towards the end it was a battle to finish a page. The story was the story she had told herself for decades, deep within her own mind, and now as it grew, line by line, on the paper before her, she wrestled with each turn in the path all over again, as if it were still possible to change its course with the power of her words. ↗

— Frederick Weisel

#failing #frederick-weisel #story #teller #weisel

History seems to be so clumsy. ↗

— Robert Johnson

#history #seems

Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing. ↗

— Harry Johnston

#after #american #areas #asia #attempts

I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them. ↗

— Cobi Jones

#bring #cosmos #country #deep #excited

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history. ↗

— Howard Mumford Jones

#american #chief #complicates #cultural #emerson

I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#explosive #happened #historical #history #i

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it. ↗

— Ric Keller

#common #common sense #encourage #history #illegal