A Quote by Joe Abercrombie

History is littered with dead good men

Joe Abercrombie

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Dead Good Good Men History Men

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Joe Abercrombie
British - Writer
Born: December 31, 1974

History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.

Albert Einstein

I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas.

Charles Bukowski

It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word! ... We read in Dead Men's books! We laugh at Dead Men's jokes, and cry at Dead Men's pathos! . . . Whatever we seek to do, of our own free motion, a Dead Man's icy hand obstructs us!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.

Freeman Dyson

Art history is littered with work that involves light.

James Turrell

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

Giles Foden

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

George R. R. Martin

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Enoch Powell

I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.

Annie Dillard

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Enoch Powell

Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

The reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they had dead men preaching to them. O that the Lord may quicken and revive them! How can dead men beget living children?

George Whitefield

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Ben Bradlee

From the immediate abandonment of the promise of an extra £350m for the NHS, the history of Brexit is already littered with discarded and unfulfillable promises.

Dominic Grieve

We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of nature and the history of mankind. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.