Thomas Head Raddall famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.
Even if you forget thatÂ´s not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you canÂ´t reclaim the person you were beforehand; your state of innocence is not there to be retrieved.
The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.
You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.
Do I have to know rules and all that crap? Then forget it.
Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.

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