Top 25 Historia Quotes
#2. Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again.
Peter Ackroyd
#3. He who has money, lives long: he who has authority, can do no wrong: he who has might, establishes right. Such is history! Ecce historia!
Gottfried Benn
#4. Optimumque est, ut volgo dixere, aliena insania frui. And the best plan is, as the popular saying was, to profit by the folly of others. Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis
Robert Galbraith
#5. Perhaps the artist who seeks dignity above all in his 'historia', ought to represent very few figures; for as paucity of words imparts majesty to a prince, provided histhoughts and orders are understood, so the presence of only the strictly necessary numbers of bodies confers dignity on a picture.
Leon Battista Alberti
#6. I felt like the Empress Theodora. Can I get more orifices? I thought. Is that what she meant in the Historia Arcana - not that three isn't enough, but that the three on offer aren't enough to sustain a marriage?
Nell Zink
#7. Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
Herodotus
#9. Celebrities seek fame. They take actions to get attention. Most often, the actions they take have no particular moral content.
James D. Bradley
#11. Late in his life, Rene complained of living a life of a celebrity one minute and a "John Doe" the next.
James D. Bradley
#12. It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for difference of opinion in religious tenets, there never happened to be any inquisition, any auto da fe, any crusade, among the Pagans.
Laurence Sterne
#13. Here's my definition of a hero. A hero is an ordinary person given being and action by something bigger than themselves. One thing I'm sure about is I'm real ordinary. Yet I've had the chance to touch the lives of a lotta people.
Werner Erhard
#14. Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy.
Kelly Miller
#15. Iwo Jima had become the number-one front-page story in newspapers across the country. And it had become the most heavily covered, written-about battle in World War II.
James D. Bradley
#16. That is how we always keep our beloved dead alive, isn't it? By telling stories about them; true stories.
James D. Bradley
#17. Roughly fifty percent of procedure in a Marine basic-training program is about disconnecting the young American boy from his concept of himself as a unique individual, a lone operator.
James D. Bradley
#19. You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.
Alexandre Dumas
#20. Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
Maurice De Vlaminck
#21. I refused to ask for help. You may call that stubborn, I call it independence.
Shelly Crane
#22. Later he would declare that not getting hit was like running through rain and not getting wet.
James D. Bradley
#23. There can never be a king in a free country of honourable people! Monarch, Kaiser, emperor, dictator, Caesar or shah, they all belong to the submissive and weak minded societies!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. See, I saw someone get strangled once when I was 9.
L.T. Vargus
#25. college-educated workers are more likely to enjoy what they do for a living, and identify closely with their careers, so work long hours willingly.
Anonymous
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