Quotes About Historical Revisionism

#1. This was historical revisionism at its best, and hadn't Sam always specialized in that, hadn't she always said she wished she had a permanent film rolling of their life so she could go back and prove that, yes, he did so say that thing he now denied?

Liane Moriarty

#2. When you sit alone quietly, it's something beautiful, even if nobody sees it.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#3. I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.

Umar

#4. There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music.

James Weldon Johnson

#5. They reach the point where they feel, "I can go into samadhi now. I can do everything on my own," and that's exactly where they stay, in the lower samadhis. There are many, many people on this earth who can go into salvakalpa samadhi.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. ("Jane Brown's Body")

Cornell Woolrich

#7. I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

Townes Van Zandt

#8. An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

Robert South

#9. When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces ... I just know they're about to jab me with something.

Homer

#10. While I understand the mother believes what she is saying, I cannot believe the statement to be true for her young child. Hence the book.

May Saubier

#11. If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble ... ' the law is an ass - an idiot.

Charles Dickens

#12. If anybody tries to penetrate the past with the knife of the present will always act in vain. The past is invulnerable. Such attempts can only cause the present or the future to bleed." - Gregor Brand

Simon Schwartz