Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.

About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes".

The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical."

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is the organization of the story in such a way that bias cannot be recognized.

The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.

Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain, unless one can. do big things.

[History is] the very servant of the servants of God, the drudge of all the drudges.

In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all.

The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good story.

Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain unless one can ... do big things.

If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.

I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.

One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!

Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.

I think the best and most we can do for ourselves is to find the thing we love to do, and then do it as if our very life depended upon doing it.

Im truly the best singer in the country. My kind of pop music is the best in Spain.

The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color.

The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization.