#tory

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#almost #automatically #because #characters #come

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#after #began #christianity #completely #fact

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#complicated #examined #extensively #had #history

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#ever #freedom #history #making #people

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong. ↗

— John Acton

#history #neither #nor #penalties #provides

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. ↗

— Lord Acton

#control #few #frequently #gangsters #get

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. ↗

— Lord Acton

#history #illumination #memory #soul

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. ↗

— Lord Acton

#deposited #eminently #experience #future #goes

My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as. ↗

— Kate Adie

#find #get #going #heart #job

In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed. ↗

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

#from time to time #general #history #prevailed #thailand