Historyden Quotes & Sayings

With a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object. — Donna Tartt

And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music. — Lesley Garrett

My parents traveled a lot, so my grandparents practically raised me. My grandmother and I really bonded in the kitchen. She's this amazing southern cook, and I would always help her - whether it was cracking eggs or stirring the green beans. It takes me back there. — Hillary Scott

A man friends are more capable of working him harm than strangers; and his greatest
danger lies in his own habits. — Aleister Crowley

Bathed in sweat and trembling with agitation, no,
not with agitation, but with fear, for he finally admitted it to himself: it was naked fear
that had seized him, and in admitting it he grew calmer and his thoughts clearer — Patrick Suskind

I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there. — Sam Donaldson

Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured. — Yann Martel

And if this seems strange to you - that, under these difficult, frightening, and outlandish circumstances, children might be happy...well, then you don't know all that much about children. — Adam Gidwitz

Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined. — Henry David Thoreau

It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis. — Karl Marx