#tory

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#history #pageant #philosophy

Libraries are not made, they grow. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#grow #libraries #made

That great dust-heap called 'history'. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#called #great

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place. ↗

— Donald Davis

#anywhere #could #created #die #discovered

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it. ↗

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

#history #like #story #telling #way

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#clocked #daily #days #each #expected

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#history #illuminates #interests #only #past

The main thing is to make history, not to write it. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#main #main thing #make #thing #write

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#animal #certain #i #male #men

All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history. ↗

— Wade Davis

#change #constant #constantly #cultures #dance