#tory

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#about #account #brought #events #false

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#rewriting-history #beauty

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration. ↗

— Peter Utley

#contemporary history #exercise #funeral #history #obituary

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#dreaming #history #often #poorly #shown

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#history repeats itself #itself #repeats #things #wrong

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#art #battles #cares #comes #down

My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history. ↗

— Angie Everhart

#history #model #mother #picture #rest

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#hero #just #look #own #story

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words. ↗

— Tony Blair

#dependent #those #tory #wealth #words

That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes. ↗

— Brad Bird

#archetypes #base #family #i #i tried