Historikerkanzlei Quotes & Sayings

The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect. — Kresley Cole

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. — Thomas Paine

You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it? — Sarah Addison Allen

My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing. — Tika Sumpter

There are confirmed stories of people who can break instruments and cause them to fail by walking in a room. I'm the opposite - I can walk into a room and something will work better than it is supposed to. — Robert Moog

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around. — Gaylord Nelson

The boy was not insensitive, he knew; but he had the facility and self-confidence that came of looking at fate not as a master but as an equal. — Edith Wharton

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed. — Charles Handy

Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that children learn that life is a magic thing, if "not a rose garden." The parent's role is primarily to stand by with a good supply of band-aids. — Leo Buscaglia

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. — Martin Luther King Jr.

At six o'clok the young King's terrible sufferings finally ended. After his eyes had closed for the last time, the tempeste raged on. Later, superstitious folk claimed that Henry himself had sent it, and had risen from his grave in anger at the subversion of his will. — Alison Weir

With breast cancer, nothing is straightforward. It makes sense for most people to make their dietary decisions based on what it does for heart disease. That's where the data are most strong. — Walter Willett