#tory

Every story has its demands. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#every #story

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#after #amusement #areas #barrier #disaster

I used to work in a hospital, in a laboratory doing phlebotomy. I was a vampire. ↗

— John Edward

#hospital #i #laboratory #used #vampire

Inherently participatory in nature, Community Video focusing on using video to enable communities to communicate amongst themselves as well as with others. ↗

— Ben Edwards

#communicate #communities #community #enable #focusing

I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#aspect #began #compelling #continues #denied

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#does #entrust #freedom #history #long

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#annals #behind #commonwealth #different #empire

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#dublin #garden #here #history #i

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#hoax #islam #lies #muhammad #religion

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me. ↗

— James Ellroy

#basic #going #history #i #kid