Historyand Quotes

#1. Current nationalism is merely the affirmation of the right of colonial elites to repeat historyand follow the road travelled by the rich toward the universal consumption of internationally marketed packages, a road which can ultimately lead only to universal pollution and universal frustration.

Ivan Illich

#2. In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper's bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father's life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born.

Michael Ashcroft

#3. QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?

David Halberstam

#4. I thought you would never arrive." "Traffic." Warrick smiled at Samantha. She felt herself blush. She loved traffic. She hoped there was more on the way back to his penthouse.

Erin Kellison

#5. I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.

Faith Hill

#6. Charge!' Sadie barrelled into the clearing, her staff in one hand and her Greek scroll in the other.

I glanced at Annabeth. 'Your new friend is awesome.'

Then I followed Sadie.

Rick Riordan

#7. She'd been in a hermetically sealed bubble. A " couple bubble" that made the rest of the male species invisible.

Alexandra Potter

#8. An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.

Maureen Forrester

#10. Good taste is not something you can be taught. It's not something you obtain in a store or go to college to learn.

Pat Conroy

#11. Everything depends on what we would rather do than change.

Adam Phillips

#12. From first days in school, we are taught to listen to everything and everyone but ourselves, to take in all our clues about living from the people and powers around us.

Parker J. Palmer

#13. I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

Gustave Flaubert

#14. It was soaring, that voice, warm and complicated, utterly fearless.

Ann Patchett

#15. I never met a girl I couldn't say goodbye to

Ilsa Madden-Mills