A list of 46 words by chained_bear.
- biographywas added by chained_bear and appears on 23 lists
- historianwas added by chained_bear and appears on 23 lists
- knows no jumpswas added by chained_bear and appears on just this list
- the felt necessities of the timewas added by chained_bear and appears on just this list
- all history was a palimpsestwas added by chained_bear and appears on just this list
- what else is history for if not to remind us of our better dreamswas added by chained_bear and appears on just this list
- wheel of historywas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
- there is properly no history, only biographywas added by chained_bear and appears on just this list
- we are ourselves historywas added by chained_bear and appears on just this list
- the fierce urgency of nowwas added by chained_bear and appears on just this list
- good old dayswas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
- the real war will never get in the bookswas added by chained_bear and appears on just this list
- history repeats itselfwas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
- first as tragedy, second as farcewas added by chained_bear and appears on just this list
- half of historywas added by chained_bear and appears on just this list
- history is the presentwas added by chained_bear and appears on just this list
- hand of historywas added by chained_bear and appears on just this list
- end of historywas added by chained_bear and appears on just this list
- become who you were born to bewas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
- watching the world wake up from historywas added by chained_bear and appears on just this list
- history is bunkwas added by chained_bear and appears on just this list
- the world is changedwas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
- much that once was is lost for none now live who remember itwas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
- immortalwas added by chained_bear and appears on 42 lists
- some things that should not have been forgotten were lostwas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
- history became legendwas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
- a night to rememberwas added by chained_bear and appears on 3 lists
- the line of kings is brokenwas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
- all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to uswas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
- ancient worldwas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
- weight of the deadwas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
- rise above your fatherswas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
- at the turn of the tidewas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
- breaking of the worldwas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
- i would have them make such an end as to be worthy of remembrancewas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
- how did it come to thiswas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
- now he belongs to the ageswas added by chained_bear and appears on just this list
- remember today, little brotherwas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
- those are the stories that stay with youwas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
- don't know much about historywas added by chained_bear and appears on just this list
- at the end of all thingswas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
- but it is not this daywas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
- the age of menwas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
- history lessonwas added by chained_bear and appears on 3 lists
- the arc of historywas added by chained_bear and appears on 4 lists
- the eye of historywas added by chained_bear and appears on 2 lists
vanishedone commented on the list history
In U.K. politics the eye of history is less notorious than the hand. Possibly Fukuyama's 'end of history' would also fit this list?
November 5, 2008
chained_bear commented on the list history
Thanks V.O.
November 5, 2008
reesetee commented on the list history
Nice! How about "We are ourselves history" -- Herman Hesse? And Ralph Waldo Emerson's "there is properly no history, only biography."
November 6, 2008
chained_bear commented on the list history
Thanks RT. I added Hesse's, but I've seen Emerson's and a similar one by Disraeli, and I just hate the attitude espoused in it. Of course that's no reason for excluding the fairly famous quotation from the list... but it makes me mad that some people (admittedly very few) still believe the "great man" theory of history. Of course that was the dominant view in the nineteenth century, so I can forgive Emerson and Disraeli for it... but ... *skeeves*. I'll get over it, I'm sure.
November 6, 2008
reesetee commented on the list history
I don't agree with the sentiment either, but I assumed you were collecting, as you say, "fairly famous" quotations of all stripes. Still, it's your list! And a nifty one at that. :-)
November 6, 2008
chained_bear commented on the list history
Good point. I'm over myself already. :)
November 6, 2008
reesetee commented on the list history
Wow, that was fast!
November 6, 2008
chained_bear commented on the list history
I'm setting an example for my Republican brethren. ;)
November 6, 2008
chained_bear commented on the list history
Is it wrong to LOL at your own five-month-old comment that you'd completely forgotten about?
April 9, 2009
sionnach commented on the list history
History - it's just one damned thing after another!
One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. ~Stalin
History is merely gossip. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
April 9, 2009