#tory

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#books #history #history books #i #i think

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#be kind #i #intend #kind #me

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ↗

— Confucius

#every #every time #fall #falling #glory

The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth. ↗

— Robert Baldwin Ross

#contain #england #history #law #newspapers

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#always #even #governments #hatched #history

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#borrowed #changes #ever #history #late

For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth. ↗

— Eric Anderson

#company #countries #first #first time #history

From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#began #beginning #driven #feeds #i

He's Darkness. Unpleasant. I wouldn't trust him. Nor do I trust every mortal I meet. I don't know where evil comes from, and frankly it doesn't matter. Not right now. Histories and myths are renamed and reinvented eternally across the world. I can't speak to that. What I do know? This is your story. ↗

— Leanna Renee Hieber

#history #myth #religion #beauty

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age. ↗

— Scott Bakula

#age #business #great #great thing #mandatory