Braudel On History Quotes

#1. Jacob Riis in his How the Other Half Lives

David McCullough

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

Fernand Braudel

#3. In show business, never underestimate the power of saying "no".

Doc Brown

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

Fernand Braudel

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

Fernand Braudel

#6. I hope I will get to novelize my present circumstances at some point. I have some great stories to tell.

Jon Weisman

#7. 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

#8. You have Kurt [Cobain], and he's singing about your experiences. They're our collective experiences.

Brett Morgen

#9. I do not want to arrive at the end of life and then be asked what I made of it and have to answer: 'I acted.' I want to be able to say: 'I loved and I was mystified. It was a joy sometimes, and I knew grief. And I would like to do it all again.'

Liv Ullmann

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

Fernand Braudel

#11. It was easy to believe when everything was good. But when bad things happened, doubt sowed its seed in fertile soil and burrowed deep. It was my duty to root it out.

Michele Dominguez Greene

#12. The present is burthened too much with the past.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#13. There is no progress or accomplishment without sacrifice.

Idowu Koyenikan

#14. The weakest would be put out of service rather than be allowed to compromise the whole system.

Frances McCall Rosenbluth

#15. You are the most brave intrepid person I have ever known, and you have dedicated your life to helping those who are misunderstood and underrepresented.

Claire Danes

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

Fernand Braudel

#17. I like the connection - me touching her. She's oil on my troubled, deep, dark waters.
Hmm ... flowery, Grey.

E.L. James