Fustel Coulanges Quotes & Sayings

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression. — Henry Adams

To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. — John Stuart Mill

Life is a gracious gift. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My mind is always on whatever next project I'm working on. — Lois Lowry

Not one single atom opposes us. — Yi Wu Hongzhi

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies. — Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth. Fustel de — Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

Nobody liked my plan.
"You want us to split up?" Chase asked, his brow wrinkling in obvious bewilderment.
Lake echoed the sentiment, her voice flat. "Why would we split up? There's four of us and one of him." After a brief moment's pause, she amended her head count to better reflect the real odds. "Three and a half of us, one of him."
Three and a half, as in three werewolves, one human. I narrowed my eyes. "For your sake, Lake, I'm going to pretend that Devon is the half."
Dev, unquestionably the strongest person in the room, just shrugged and let me keep my delusions. "It's because of my petite stature," he said. All 6'4" of him. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it. — James Baldwin

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience? — Thomas J. Watson

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor. — Sue Townsend

Memories do not hurt, they only influence. — Peter F. Hamilton

History is and should be a science. — Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

Truth is it's own witness. — J. Richard Clarke

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex. — Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit. — Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

Here, for a moment, we are joined. — Ron Silliman

Salute to the Thief. Junaid of Baghdad was passing the scene of a public hanging, where a thief was on the scaffold. Junaid bowed towards the criminal. Someone asked him: 'What did you do that?' Junaid said: 'I was bowing before his single-mindedness. For his aim, that man has given his life. — Idries Shah

That inability to understand becomes the existence that illuminates everything. — Albert Camus

Ladies and gentlemen, Otis Alexander Sudeikis has LEFT the building! (I'm the building) — Olivia Wilde