Pintando Con Quotes & Sayings

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals. — Michael Rostovtzeff

Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy. — Niklaus Wirth

In the General History of Africa, we come across very impressive facts about the culture of primitive African peoples. It is known, for example, that in the old African kingdoms, all foreigners-whether white or colored- enjoyed hospitality and had the same rights as the native people. At the same time, a foreigner in ancient Rome or Greece usually became a slave. Such and similar facts have probably made Leo Frobenius, a well-known German ethnologist and a great connoisseur of Africa, write : The Africans are civilized up to their bones, and the idea of their being barbarians is a European fiction. — Alija Izetbegovic

Low interest rates and cheap credit also cause people to act foolishly or greedily ... — Fareed Zakaria

Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Justice is a process, and change takes time, but I believe we ought to dream big dreams and make big statements as we pursue those dreams. Amos didn't tell the people that God wants justice to trickle through their society. The New Living Translation uses the phrase "mighty flood of justice" (Amos 5:24) to describe what God wants to see. One thing we learned in Mendenhall is that once flood waters start rushing through a place, there's no turning them back with human strength. — John M. Perkins

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. — Oscar Wilde

When you work all the time, the other aspects of your identity recede until they seem to have disappeared. — Nicholas Dawidoff

There's the story of a person who does this, does that, but it isn't I, I have nothing in common with him. He travels through countries I know no more about than if I had never been there. Sometimes, in my story, it happens that I pronounce these fine names you read in atlases, Aranjuez or Canterbury. New images are born in me, images such as people create from books who have never travelled. My words are dreams, that is all. — Jean-Paul Sartre

My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory ... — Alexander Kotov

Later - how much later? Hard to tell. In times of tragedy clocks will trick you - Philip stood in the kitchen doorway. — Dexter Palmer

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists. — Hu Shih

I saw white figures. Twice I fancied I saw a solitary white, ape-like creature running rather quickly up the hill, and once near the ruins I saw a leash of them carrying some dark body. — H.G.Wells

We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us. — Mattie Stepanek