Sociohistorical Quotes & Sayings

We all hate pain and suffering but nothings causes humanity to progress quicker than it! — Timothy Pina

If people treat a cemetery like trash, it's a good indication of how they feel about the people buried there and those who are still receiving services," she said. — Darby Penney

For 'Seabiscuit', I interviewed 100 people I never met. — Laura Hillenbrand

After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America's largest source of trade surplus. — Tyler Cowen

So this purports to be a disease, alcoholism? A disease like a cold? Or like cancer? I have to tell you, I have never heard of anyone being told to pray for relief from cancer. Outside maybe certain very rural parts of the American South, that is. So what is this? You're ordering me to pray? Because I allegedly have a disease? I dismantle my life and career and entered nine months of low-income treatment for a disease, and I'm prescribed prayer? Does the word retrograde signify? Am I in a sociohistorical era I don't know about? What exactly is the story here? — David Foster Wallace

I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way. — Holly Hunter

If you don't feel an overwhelming sense of emotion when you listen to music, then you're listening to the wrong kind. — Jennifer Salaiz