Historiology Quotes

#1. Lincoln is theology, not historiology. He is a faith, he is a church, he is a religion, and he has his own priests and acolytes, most of whom have a vested interest in [him] and who are passionately opposed to anybody telling the truth about him.

Lerone Bennett Jr.

#2. We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

Vernon Howard

#3. If you're getting ready to do a really emotional scene then, right before it, you're probably not going to be outside playing basketball.

Emilie De Ravin

#4. You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.

Paul Auster

#5. I kept watching the trees, as if I could see them grow or something. They didn't. The only thing that grew was their shadows.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#6. If liberals had been in charge of the Arizona memorial, it would probably have featured an exhaustive exhibit about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and little about the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Mona Charen

#7. The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.

Bill Gates

#8. She also said she was proud of me, which is all anyone can wish to hear from his mother. The

Saroo Brierley

#9. No mandatory prison term for employers who hire illegals.

Mitt Romney

#10. Of all the weapons in the Federal Reserve arsenal, words were the the most unpredictable in their consequences.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#11. I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.

John Waters

#12. Magnus didn't really want this kind of thing this early in the morning - this talk of aching memories and wanting to forget. This conversation needed to end, now.

Cassandra Clare

#13. Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.

David Sedaris

#14. Love the people that wanna see you be successful and help you expecting nothing in return. That's priceless. Those are real friends.

Mark Patterson

#15. Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that it could create both iambic pentameter and plutonium.

David Quammen