G. M. Trevelyan Quotes

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

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• Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Care
  • Accept
  • Doctors

• It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Fun
  • More
  • Conclusion

• I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Myself
  • Walk

• Don't forget to eat a lot of greens and fish oil pills. Those are two of the best things to keep your skin glowing.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Best
  • Oil
  • Fish

• I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing

• In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Work
  • Character
  • Down

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• I was not the popular kid in school.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • School
  • Popular
  • Kid

• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Author

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • End
  • Aim
  • Noble

• These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Me
  • Sex
  • Days

• I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Man
  • Butterfly
  • Dreaming

• I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Live
  • Man
  • Proud

• Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.

  

  Carl Olson
  • Relationship
  • Church
  • Catholic

• Some people have a blog that's, like, 'Today I brushed my teeth.' Well, who cares? Who cares that you brushed your teeth. Okay - you brushed your teeth! That's so massively egocentric, it's just ridiculous.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Today
  • You

• I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Think
  • Period

• The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • World
  • Future
  • Past

• If the Rolling Stones are playing a concert across town, that's not my audience anyways. But I do find that there's a lot of people coming back around to see me again.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Me
  • Find

• A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • True
  • Happy
  • Nature

• The stoic husband was the glorious thing.The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true,And lov'd his country.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Country
  • True
  • Courage

• Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Learning

• I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Great
  • School
  • High

• Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.

  

  Benedetto Croce
  • Knowledge
  • Judgement
  • Fills

• The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Knowledge
  • Sympathy