Declination Form Quotes & Sayings

History has to be rewritten in every generation, because although the past does not change, the present does; each generation asks new questions of the past and finds new areas of sympathy as it re-lives different aspects of the experiences of its predecessors. — Christopher Hill

Ink is the cosmetic that ideas will wear when they go out in public. Graphite is their dirty truth. — Henry Petroski

When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. — Mandy Hale

I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn't that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write? — Ann Patchett

I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion are very different from ours, who live in sierras and mountains, without fixed settlements, and where by divine will I have placed under the sovereignty of the King and Queen our Lords, an Other World, whereby Spain, which was reckoned poor, is become the richest of countries. Columbus is coming from the Indies as a prisoner to Cadiz. — Christopher Columbus

why did you tell me to look on the 'other' table instead of 'that' table? — Jill Barnett

The world as it was had no room for her. — Irin Carmon

History is not written in the interests of morality. — Agnes Repplier

Disturbing crunch as
Skin is punctured for access
Sweet, warm, filling blood — Debby Feo

And after that, I watched our house collapse in on itself and I spent some time lying in the rubble. Then I vanished completely. I wasn't here at all. Then you phoned. — Ali Smith

I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music. — Vladimir Ashkenazy

Keep your mind always in a positive state and your future will follow in the same path — Bradley Burks

Don Quixote took windmills for giants and sheep for armies; d'Artagnan took every smile for an insult and every glance for a provocation. As a result of which he kept his fist clenched from Tarbes to Meung, and all in all brought his hand to the pommel of his sword ten times a day; however the fist never landed on any jaw, and the sword never left its scabbard. Not that the sight of the wretched yellow nag did not spread many smiles across the faces of passersby; but since above the nag clanked a sword of respectable size, and above this sword shone an eye more fierce than proud, the passersby restrained their hilarity, or, if hilarity won out over prudence, they tried at least to laugh on one side only, like antique masques. D'Artagnan thus remained majestic and intact in his susceptibility until that unfortunate town of Meung. — Alexandre Dumas

They can't rip your heart out if you don't let them anywhere near it — J. Daniels

Have as much fun as you can in life because you never know when it will end. — Stuart J. Scesney