"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."

-- Herbert Butterfield

#Thinking Quotes #History Quotes

“With reason did the Most Holy Virgin predict that all generations would call her blessed, for all the Elect obtain eternal salvation through the means of Mary.”
“A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.”
“One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.”
“What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?”
“The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.”
“I wasn't the brightest kid in school. I was a backbencher troubling the frontbencher, and eventually I failed in my 10th grade. But then in higher secondary, there were only three people who got first division in arts, and I was one of them. So this tells you, where you put your mind and heart into, that's where you go.”
“Nature, when undisturbed, is never monotonous, you know. Even when using green, the most frequent color on her palette, she throws in contrasting tints by way of expression, and you will seldom see two sides of a leaf of the same hue, and the leaf stem frequently gives a good dash of bronze or purple.”
“When you've got the Daytona 500 out there at stake and everything riding on the line, guys go for it, and the guys that go for it are the ones that are either going to win or they're going to wreck.”

Source : "Daytona Duel: Race two winner's press conference". www.motorsport.com. February 16, 2007.

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