History Quotes - Page 23

Beneath history, memory and forgettingBeneath memory and forgetting, life.

The conundrum of the twenty-first (century) is that with the best intentions of color blindness, and laws passed in this spirit, we still carry instincts and reactions inherited from our environments and embedded in our being below the level of conscious decision. There is a color line in our heads, and while we could see its effects we couldn’t name it until now. But john powell is also steeped in a new science of “implicit bias,” which gives us a way, finally, even to address this head on. It reveals a challenge that is human in nature, though it can be supported and hastened by policies to create new experiences, which over time create new instincts and lay chemical and physical pathways. This is a helpfully unromantic way to think about what we mean when we aspire, longingly, to a lasting change of heart. And john powell and others are bringing training methodologies based on the new science to city governments and police forces and schools. What we’re finding now in the last 30 years is that much of the work, in terms of our cognitive and emotional response to the world, happens at the unconscious level.

Krista Tippett

The Umayyad caliphate stretched from Spain to India, making it the largest empire in the world

Firas Alkhateeb

Rapid expansion coupled with social stability is proof of Umar's incredible capabilities as a leader

Firas Alkhateeb

Like the pioneering Muslim scientists, Al Bukhari insisted on an empirical, organized method in the science of fiqh and hadith

Firas Alkhateeb

In the 10th century, Baghdad instituted a licensing exam that all doctors had to take before practicing as physicians

Firas Alkhateeb

History of humanity is nothing but a history of loyalty!

Sanjai Velayudhan

Basic trigonometric properties put forth by Muslim mathematicians serve as basis for how GPS systems work today

Firas Alkhateeb

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The world's oldest university, University of Karaouin, was established by a Muslim woman in Fez, Morocco in 859

Firas Alkhateeb

Ali was the natural choice as he was the most respected Companion still alive and was related to Prophet in two ways

Firas Alkhateeb

It is only a woman who can make a man feel like a 'superhero' or 'inadequate'.Its her attention and admiration that a man desperately seeks!

Sanjai Velayudhan

Bring no harm to the trees, nor burn them with fire, especially those which are fruitful" - Abu Bak's warfare rules, to his army

Firas Alkhateeb

The principle must always rule that ideas are not born of other ideas, philosophies of other philosophies; they are a continually renewed of real historical development. The unity of history (what the idealists call unity of the spirit) is not a presupposition, but a continuously developing process.

Antonio Gramcsi

From history books you should at best believe just the punctuation. The rest is uncertain, incomplete, distorted, exaggerated or even fabricated.

A.J. Beirens

Where do the wheels of history lead? How can you be so sure that the wheels of history won't get bogged down in blood and marrow again?

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Because, Petronella - it's something in his soul. It's something in his soul and you can't get it out.

Jessie Burton

All we can do if we're lucky is stich up the mistakes other people make.

Jessie Burton

That may be. But to decide that I was never going to live as a proper woman was not your choice to make.' 'What do you mean a proper woman?' 'A proper woman marries - she has children -' 'Then what does that make me? Am I not a proper woman? Last time I looked I certainly was.

Jessie Burton

Love your children, for they are the seeds that will make this city bloom.

Jessie Burton

Words are water in this city. One drop of rumour could drown us.

Jessie Burton

Take care, take care. This city thrives! It's money gives you wings to soar. But it is a yoke on your shoulders and you would do well to take note of the bruise around your neck.

Jessie Burton

Believe it or don't believe it, Madame. But my feet are tired too. Bloody tired. Like a dead man's.

Jessie Burton

We're nothing more than prisoners to your desire.

Jessie Burton

The ink was secret nectar, for Marin isn't married.

Jessie Burton

Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain.

Corrie ten Boom

It is important to leave behind a rich and memorable legacy than just accumulated history!

Sanjai Velayudhan

There are horizons through the brickwork, you wait and see.

Jessie Burton

Even if yesterday existed, today is just real, not a fantasy like the past.

Michael Bassey Johnson

What was once, is no longer.

Jessie Burton

The night darkens, the stars unfriendly, the cold a knife upon her neck - but Nella waits, until she can no longer difference between Johannes and the darkness that carries him away.

Jessie Burton

Neighbours watching neighbours, twisting ropes to bind us all.

Jessie Burton

From little seeds great flowers grow.

Jessie Burton

the ballerina on perfected toeSpins to the axis of a fortitudeThat is the sum of all her yesterdays.

Djuna Barnes

Wasplike with their long slender hulls, these were ships not seen in these waters before. They approached in a line, each flying a large American flag. To the hundreds of onlookers by now gathered on shore, many also carrying American flags, it would be a sight they would never forget and into which they read great meaning. These were the descendants of the colonials returning now at Britain's hour of need....

Erik Larson

The world became informed about the extent of the catastrophe and the losses by the big powers eclipsed the numbers of Estonias who perished. When counting Hitler's victims there was no interest in Stalin's victims. Stalin belonged among the victors. Since victors are not judged, a half century later it is still ignored that the number of Stalin's victims exceeds Hitler's (Applebaum 2003). In addition, only rarely does one hear references to the fact that Soviet union0s criminal acts have not been expiated.

Rutt Hinrikus

The best we can do is take the history we have and deal with it.

Christopher L. Bennett

To make matters worse, Jackson placed great value on regurgitating every last detail of the assigned texts. When, in response to Jackson's question 'What are the three simple machines?' a cadet answered, 'The inclined plane, the lever, and the wheel,' Jackson replied, 'No, sir. The lever, the wheel, and the inclined plane.

S.C. Gwynne

The record must be hurled like a stone under history's wheel in order to stop it.

Gustawa Jarecka

I believe history is a circle, made by men who don't learn from their mistakes.

Edward Hogan

Like the New Orleans tradition that preceded it, and the Swing Era offerings that followed it, Chicago jazz was not just the music of a time and place, but also a timeless style of performance - and for its exponents, very much a way of life - one that continues to reverberate to this day in the works of countless Dixieland and traditional jazz bands around the world. For many listeners, the Chicago style remains nothing less than the quintessential sound of jazz.

Ted Gioia

The French by their nature had a permanent hunger for sensation. This was even more true of the eighteenth century, of which that considerable expert Victor du Bled remarked that no other age was ever so bored.

Antal Szerb

It is not the business of a Queen to be human.

Antal Szerb

If you spent time thinking about the future, you wouldn't be a true adventurer. An adventure is something that happens from one moment to the next; in which there is no yesterday and no tomorrow. Everything else is just petty bourgeois.

Antal Szerb

History narrates stories about great men from the past,write your story now and make history

Mohammed Sekouty

Everyone has a story with coca-cola people like Wayne Dyer even and people like Alan Rickman and many other people, so... they are dead so you can take it Coca-Cola is part of the history!

Deyth Banger

I don't like regressing - I move beyond. Life belongs to the future and I believe in creating History rather than visiting and revisiting the past.

Amit Abraham

Is it better to have bronze than copper and tin separately? Is this the marker of some historic advance?

Claudia Piñeiro

Not being interested in other cultures is the normal state of mankind.

Bernard Lewis

History is, above all else, the creation and recording of that heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use. To those of us who study history not merely as a warning reminder of man's follies and crimes, but also as an encouraging remembrance of generative souls, the past ceases to be a depressing chamber of horrors; it becomes a celestial city, a spacious country of the mind, wherein a thousand saints, statesmen, inventors, scientists, poets, artists, musicians, lovers, and philosophers still live and speak, teach and carve and sing.

will and Ariel Durant

You are a stone, thrown upon a lake. But the ripples you create will never make you still.

Jessie Burton

This city is like no other city in the world. It is brilliant but it is bloated, and I've never called it home

Jessie Burton

The turnip cannot thrive in the tulips patch of soil.

Jessie Burton

The rules of this house are written in water. I must either sink or swim.

Jessie Burton

So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under. And that was the last of the little house

Laura Ingalls Wilder

We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive recirculation.

Will Durant

Arthur managed to speak to his grandmother [Queen Eleanor of England], demanding that she evacuate the castle with all her possessions and then go peaceably wherever she wished, for he wanted to show nothing but honour to her person. The Queen replied that she would not leave it, but if he behaved as a courtly gentlemen, he would quit this place, for he would find plenty of castles to attack other than the one she was in.

Alison Weir

The action of social revolution and the reaction of guarding against such revolution or combating it once it has begun are the causes of a great deal of the human misery with which history is permeated.

Isaac Asimov

The snug log house looked just as it always had. It did not seem to know they were going away.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

One day in the woods he met an Indian. They stood in the wet, cold woods and looked at each other, and they could not talk because they did not know each other's words.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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