A Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Nicolas Chamfort
French - Writer
April 6, 1741 - April 13, 1794

If you strip the horrors of history from history, the flip side of that is you strip the nobility of rising above such horrors.

Perry DeAngelis

In a way, the whole notion of a blueprint of a building is not that different from a script for a movie. A sequence of spaces, which is what you do as an architect, is really the same as a sequence of scenes.

Susanne Bier

It's weird - on almost every film I've worked on, the first sequence we storyboard ends up being the first sequence that goes into animation, and ends up being almost shot-for-shot the same.

Pete Docter

We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history were nothing more than all the narratives of human pain, assembled in sequence. And surely this is, often enough, an adequate description. But history is also the narratives of grace, the recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments when someone did something for someone else, saved a life, bestowed a gift, gave something beyond what was required by circumstance.

Thomas Cahill

Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.

Aldous Huxley

A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself.

Gregory Chaitin

The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains that of relating the essential sequence of historical action and, qua history, to tell what happened, not why.

Lloyd deMause

Obviously, movies don't almost ever shoot in sequence.

Geena Davis

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.

Susan Sontag

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

George R. R. Martin

Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to; art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.

Jerry Saltz

The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.

Mikhail Kalinin

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

Desmond Tutu

That's the power of music, a key sequence or a chord sequence or even a note can do something to you physically that's uncontrollable.

Edith Bowman

One of my many horrors is to become the man with the frayed jacket and unfastened flies standing at the Co-op counter with egg on his shirt and more too because the mirror in the hall has given up the ghost. A shipwrecked man without an anchor in the world except in his own liquid thoughts where time has lost its sequence.

Per Petterson

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