A Quote by Louis Fischer

History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.

Louis Fischer

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Louis Fischer
American - Journalist
February 29, 1896 - January 15, 1970

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

Orison Swett Marden

The ratio of celebrity divorces is probably about the same as non-celebrity divorces; it's just that the non-celebrity divorces don't get a lot of public scrutiny, normally.

Megan Mullally

History is no longer just a chronicle of kings and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but of ordinary women and men engaged in manifold tasks. Women's history is an assertion that women have a history.

Toshiko Kishida

Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second, to chronicle that progress cheerfully, truthfully, and entertainingly.

Frank Crowninshield

In terms of black music - the only music that we can call our own, that was really born here - I don't think a lot has been done to chronicle the relations between American history and where black music fits in.

Tom Waits

Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

Marcus Aurelius

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

Howard Nemerov

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

Arthur Erickson

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

Henry David Thoreau

Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.

Joan Lindsay

There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre.

Michael Eric Dyson

Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.