Hallett Quotes

#1. Andy [Hallett] was a real man - you can tell an adult by how they deal with pain or adversity. Andy's eyeballs gave him searing pain all day every day because of the contacts they used. He was every moment a gentlemen; laughing and joking, wiping the tears from his eyes.

James Marsters

#2. What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

Edward Hallett Carr

#3. In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

Chang-rae Lee

#4. The only secrets we got are the ones everybody knows

Michelle Butler Hallett

#5. If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Moliere

#6. The seed of error that took root during the fourth and fifth centuries blossomed into the Roman Catholic Church - a perversion of biblical Christianity.

David A. Fisher

#7. A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. Where a woman's faith in herself ends; so too does her joy.

David Hallett

#9. I often wished that I could split myself a hundred ways and live a hundred separate lives [ ... ]. But in the end, I supposed, we only had one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.

Davy Rothbart

#10. The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context

Edward Hallett Carr

#11. History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him.

Edward Hallett Carr

#12. We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.

Joan D. Chittister

#13. It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.

Edward Hallett Carr

#14. What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

Josh Radnor

#15. The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.

Edward Hallett Carr

#16. Immature thought is predominately purposive and utopian. Thought which rejects purpose altogether is the thought of old age. Mature thought combines purpose with observation and analysis.

Edward Hallett Carr

#17. Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also asks the question: Whither?

Edward Hallett Carr

#18. You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#19. Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.

Edward Hallett Carr

#20. Littlewood, on Hardy's own estimate, is the finest mathematician he has ever known. He was the man most likely to storm and smash a really deep and formidable problem; there was no one else who could command such a combination of insight, technique and power.

Henry Hallett Dale

#21. Change is certain. Progress is not.

Edward Hallett Carr

#22. I would lie, because no one would know me anyway. My grandmother convinced me to be proud of what I do.

Andy Hallett

#23. Take responsibility about what you have on your TV, and about what you are out there supporting.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#24. At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

Cormac McCarthy

#25. If we can widen the range of experiences beyond what we as individuals have encountered, if we can draw upon the experiences of others who've had to confront comparable situations in the past, then - although there are no guarantees - our chances of acting wisely should increase proportionately.

Edward Hallett Carr

#26. History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social sciences. Today anthropology, sociology, etc, flourish. History is sick. But then our society too is sick

Edward Hallett Carr

#27. I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much.

Hope Davis

#28. The capitalist shark breathes oil, but the ocean in which it swims is drying up.

Steve Hallett

#29. I actually think the creative process is finite, and I'm wondering whether I've retched everything up. Because it's like vomiting or shitting.

Andy Partridge