#tory

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#destroy #end #first #first time #future

I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct. ↗

— Charlie Hunnam

#community #community college #decided #did #direct

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#give #history #pleasure #provide #should

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#beginning #end #even #images #like

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#creator #derogatory #humour #i #never

We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next. ↗

— Laura Innes

#driven #good #good story #happens #next

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#best part #careful #culture #follow #given

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#certain #experience #finally #fuller #greater

Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up and down slopes that contained some of the oldest rocks in the world, isotope-dated at 3,800 billion years, remnants, so the geological rumor goes, of the earth's earliest terrestrial crust. ↗

— Lawrence Millman

#natural-history #page- #dating

Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs. ↗

— Kamal Ahmed

#cheers #course #describe #editor #erm