"Anyone who is going to make anything out of history will, sooner or later, have to do most of the work himself. He will have to read, and consider, and reconsider, and then read some more."

-- Geoffrey Barraclough

#History Quotes #Sooner Or Later Quotes

“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.”
“Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.”

Source : Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster
“Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.”

Source : John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.13
“Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.”
“The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.”
“it's not until you become seriously ill and you nearly die and you're at home for 6 months, that you suddenly stop to realize that this isn't the way I intended it to be in the beginning. Everything that you've done falls away and start wondering why you went through all that rock business stuff.”
“Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.”
“Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.”

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