Braudel 2 Quotes

#1. History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

Fernand Braudel

#2. The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.

Fernand Braudel

#3. The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

Fernand Braudel

#4. And this is the evidence of faith that we never allow ourselves to be torn away from Christ and the promises we have in him. The

John Calvin

#5. There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

Fernand Braudel

#6. Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.

Fernand Braudel

#7. Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.

Charles M. Schulz

#8. Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.

Evgeny Morozov

#9. Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.

Fernand Braudel

#10. Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

Fernand Braudel

#11. When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and the audiences love it.

Margaret Thatcher

#12. For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped it to conquer Spain and organize Fatimid Egypt.

Fernand Braudel

#13. Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.

Fernand Braudel

#14. The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was the rule, capitalism moved in firmly and adapted itself to all administrative quirks and difficulties

Fernand Braudel

#15. There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts.

Fernand Braudel

#16. Men love pleasure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer.

George A. Sheehan

#18. A little bit of good can turn into a whole lot of good when fueled by the commitment of a social entrepreneur.

Jeffrey Skoll

#19. Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

Fernand Braudel

#20. One does not cease to treasure a gem simply because one owns another that is larger.

Marie Brennan

#21. CONSULT, v.i. To seek another's disapproval of a course already decided on.

Ambrose Bierce

#22. Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.

William Shakespeare

#23. too. I mean, I was fucking with my brother. He was my first at everything. My first kiss. He ate my pussy first and popped my cherry," Laurie knew what she was saying was harsh, but it was true and she wanted Dena to know about it.

Aleta L. Williams

#24. All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.

Fernand Braudel