#tory

History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#evolution #his #history #individual #man

Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#could #course #events #generation #great

The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#comics #else #few #get #happening

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#chairman #constituency #could #covered #deputy

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#civics #equality #find #history #learn

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#escape #how #interests #only #reality

وجودك في حياتي يمثل لي كل أمل وحلم تمنيت تحقيقه ، ومهما يحدث لنا في المستقبل ، فسيكون كل يوم يمر علينا معًا هو أعظم يوم في حياتنا ، وسيكون قلبي دائمًا ملكًا لك ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#life #love-story #novel #life

The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#bernstein #carrying #coal #decide #off

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#history #interpretation #intervening #look #mean

The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#candidates #education #knighthood #long #preparatory