#inc

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. ↗

— Henry Adams

#am #anyone #faith #him #history

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#buildings #burning #destroyed #explosives #fires

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#brutally #creeps #express #flesh #get

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations. ↗

— Chris Patten

#above #accommodations #course #got #i

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#been #easy #governments #incite #man

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#candle #devil #god #light #principle

I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933. ↗

— Sally Rand

#i #never #retired #since #weeks

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular. ↗

— Michael York

#classics #get #great #great thing #humor

Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.' ↗

— Susannah York

#garden #had #house #i #incredible

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book. ↗

— Brooks Robinson

#fifty #i #inches #just #now