Braudel Quotes

#1. To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.

Mother Teresa

#2. Indigo, the deep blue contains an abundance of sapphires shining their light through the density, awakening and stirring our consciousness. In the daylight the sea will change, but for now it remains mysterious, obtainable through our imagination.

Jennifer Lynch

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

Fernand Braudel

#4. Don't use your skin tone as a guide to choosing the color of your eye shadow. Rather, for everyday application, pick shades of shadow that bring out your eye color.

Bobbi Brown

#5. We live in a bubble sometimes, and you can get out of touch with your fans. You go to the studio, you come home. But coming to Comic-Con is a real opportunity to connect with the people that made your show happen and are responsible for its continued success. It's really humbling.

Kunal Nayyar

#6. There's nothing inherently or patently wrong with anybody who does well, works hard, earns a living, betters themselves. I'm not against any of these things. It's about how you make that money, and then what you do with it.

Michael Moore

#7. I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No - when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Abraham Lincoln

#8. Gus screamed, the notecards falling out of his hand as he jumped. "Whoa," Bernice said. "That certainly was high-pitched for a man." "Gus is special that way," Betty said as she scooped up the cards off the counter.

T.J. Klune

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

Fernand Braudel

#10. Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.

Martha Beck

#11. 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

#12. 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

#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 summer lasted a long long time, like verse after verse of a ballad, but when it ended, it ended like a man falling dead in the street of heart trouble. One night, all in one night, severe winter came, a white horse of snow rolling over Bountiful, snorting and rolling in its meadows, its fields.

Ardyth Kennelly

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

Fernand Braudel

#16. You have to be able to unleash your inner goofball with me.

Victoria Justice

#17. Xander:
It could be witches, some evil witches, which is ridiculous cause witched they were persecuted, women power, love the eatrh, and I'll be over here.

Joss Whedon

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Fernand Braudel

#21. There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#22. A good GI bill would increase the recruit pool.

Barack Obama

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

Fernand Braudel

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

Fernand Braudel

#25. People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Fernand Braudel

#27. To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere; it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings - a reality which is neither purely physical nor metaphysical, but both at once.

Antoni Tapies

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

Fernand Braudel