Nehlen Quotes & Sayings

What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?'
'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly.
'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that. Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated ...
'Finn?'
'"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." (quoting Patrick Lagrange) — Julian Barnes

The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin. — Dick Francis

I had read it some time ago but was so completely immersed that I retained nothing. This has been an intermittent, lifelong enigma. Through early adolescence I sat and read for hours in a small grove of weed trees near the railroad track in Germantown. Like Gumby I would enter a book wholeheartedly and sometimes venture so deeply it was as if I were living within it. I finished many books in such a manner there, closing the covers ecstatically yet having no memory of the content by the time I returned home. This disturbed me but I kept this strange affliction to myself. I look at the covers of such books and their contents remain a mystery that I cannot bring myself to solve. Certain books I loved and lived within yet cannot remember. — Patti Smith

Begin to break limitation in your home, business, career and spiritual life, in Jesus' name! — T. B. Joshua

I have no patience for wasting time. — William Clay Ford Jr.

This is both a gloomy and a hopeful book. — Jane Jacobs

In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses. — Paul Watson

I been meek, and hard like an oak, i seen pretty people disappear like smoke. friends will arrive, friends will disappear. if you want me, honey baby, i'll be here. — Bob Dylan

If we're not careful, mindset, preconception, or subsequent turns can affect even what we think we observed in the first place. — Anonymous

Patience really is a virtue I don't hurriedly possess! — Sharon Fletcher

I remember on Deus Ex there was one programmer - Alex Durand, a guy who still works for us - he decided he was going to get through the game without ever using a weapon. I would never think to do that. And that's fine. — Warren Spector

I stared at the front door as reluctant to get out of the car as Kyle was to let me leave. — Kelly Oram

Just as the world was quiet when the atrocities of apartheid were being committed, so it was when the farm murders took place. Perhaps the threshold of the world's conscience was far higher and the murdered had to number in the hundreds of thousands before they were recognized by the international community. — Dauglas Dauglas

I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love. — Jane Austen