"Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else."

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.

A. J. P. Taylor

#Running Quotes #Regret Quotes #Past Quotes

“All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.”

Source : "Moynahan Feared Motherhood" by wenn.com, June 5, 2008.
“If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“It's not a bloody piano, it's a clarenARt...you weird talking person.”
“Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.”
“I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.”
“In the Old Testament, God dealt with His people as a nation...Their relationship was completely external. But in the New Covenant, the presence of God moved out of the temple and into our hearts.”
“The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more light get, the more thankful we ought to be, for by this means we have the greater range for satisfactory contemplation. time the bounds of light will be still farther extended; and from the infinity of the divine nature, and the divine works, we may promise ourselves an endless progress in our investigation them: a prospect truly sublime and glorious.”

Source : Joseph Priestley (1780). “The theological and miscellaneous works of Joseph Priestley”, p.373
“You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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