Top 1200 Writing History Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.

Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research for readers of popular history, and do so impressively.

The idea of a judgment of history is secularism's vain, meaningless, hopeless, pathetic attempt to devise a substitute for what the great Abrahamic traditions of faith know is the final judgment of almighty God, who is not an impersonal force. History is not God. God is God. History is not our judge. God is our Judge.

Especially when we're dealing with issues of race, culture, identity, and history, the time has passed for the 'white savior' holding the black person's hand through their own history.

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first.

History teaches that nations do not learn from history.

Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then time passes and you look at a picture and you say "Wow, there is history attached to that."

If people really want to know and learn from history, why do they want bad history? Why don't they want good history? Wouldn't you rather know the truth, rather than the legend?

I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected by historians - childhood history, content analysis of historical imagery, and so on - suddenly expand from the periphery to the center of the psychohistorian's conceptual world, simply because his or her own new questions require material nowhere to be found in history books.

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.

The true makes of history are the spiritual men whom the world knew not, the unregarded agents of the creative action of the Spirit. The supreme instance of this-the key to the Christian understanding of history-is to be found in the Incarnation- the presence of the maker of the world in the world unknown to the world. ... The Incarnation is itself in a sense the divine fruit of history-of the fullness of time-and it finds its extension and completion in the historic life of the Church.

O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.

Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out - helping OTHERS move inward - it is an honor to be with others in the spirit of writing and encouragement.

I was planning on writing a detailed review of several books on web security tonight, but the Obama collapse has superseded my best-laid plans. Here’s another open thread for this important topic, as America wrestles with the issue of whether it would be a good idea to elect a President with a 20-year history of associating with people who hate America.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write stories for some of my other classes. So for my course in Scandinavian history, I asked if I could write historical fiction instead of term papers. Sometimes they’d say yes.

Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone.

I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

If you're afraid to talk to the other adults in your school it is definitely throughout history the hallmark of a failing school. When I was writing about the teachers' strike in New York City in 1968, the middle school where events triggered that strike was a place where teachers were known to hide in their classrooms.

There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to that huge number of people writing here when there are so few people writing about somewhere else.

The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn anything about writing, grammar, or spelling unless you read.

Contrary to what we learn from progressives in education and the media, the history of the Democratic Party well into the twentieth century is a virtually uninterrupted history of thievery, corruption, and bigotry.

When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.

It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.

Black History Month is an annual opportunity to recognize the central role of African Americans in our state's economic, cultural, social and political history.

I usually dread writing non-fiction. I don't feel comfortable or confident writing essays and the like.

I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

Writing with a film in mind - writing like a screenplay - is a sureshot recipe for disaster.

Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

I'm not an activist. I'm a filmmaker. I'm a dramatist. My strength is to tell a story, to find a way to tell a story that makes it exciting. Our Untold History was a huge challenge. Snowden was no piece of cake, because writing code and breaking code is some of the most boring stuff you've ever seen.

Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history, call it evolutionary history if you will.

I was writing since I can remember - I just didn't know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a career.

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

Writing was always a laborious thing for me. I never wrote fluently, I never wrote fluidly, there was something very awkward in my writing. But it seemed to me purposely awkward. It's almost as if I made the labor part of writing.

Well, predominately, if I'm writing for another artist, I'm sitting there with them and we're writing it together.

I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

George W. Bush is history's president, a man for whom the long-term success or failure of democracy in Iraq will determine his place in history.

When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.

Beneath every history, another history.

A lot of crime writing suffers from treading water. I feel an obligation to move the character on and not repeat myself. I try to fit him into a different period and a different agenda. That way, you learn slightly more about his personal history in the tradition of the unreliable narrator. It makes it more challenging to write.

Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.

English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.

When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated.