#tory

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#bring #does #history #hour #human

The longer I lived, the longer it would be until I saw him alive again, until I could taste his new lips and run my fingers through his new hair. We could be young and beautiful again . . . ↗

— Chelsie Shakespeare

#desire #dreams #love #meant-to-be #past-lives

And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#cannot #contradictory #experience #eye #hence

Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene. ↗

— Connie Chung

#already #any #by the time #cable #come

History is written by the victors. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#victors #written

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#before #defeat #had #never #victory

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#defeat #difficult #less #more #problems

We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth. ↗

— Albert Claude

#birth #cell #entered #inventory #mansion

The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#always #anger #became #because #brutal

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags. ↗

— James Buchan

#any #bags #commerce #completed #course