Robert Wilkie Quotes

While I honor the soldiers in my family, and I am a student of history, the past is the past, and I do not live in the past.

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• Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Done
  • Doing
  • Student

• The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • History
  • Man
  • Reality

• Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • History
  • Me
  • Matter

• I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • History
  • Tradition

• There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • History

• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • History
  • High
  • Think

• Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Real
  • History
  • Practice

• Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • People
  • History
  • Bear

• History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • First
  • Tragedy

• Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Work
  • History
  • Free

• Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • History
  • Reality
  • Comparison

• The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • History
  • Intelligent

• Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Law
  • Judge
  • Student

• The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • History
  • End
  • Battle

• My main goal is to become the most successful weightlifter in history.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • History
  • Goal
  • Successful

• It is only when social movements have receded into past history... that the Church with pride turns around to claim that it was she who abolished slavery, aroused the people to liberty, and emancipated woman.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • People
  • She
  • History

• When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

  

  Lynn Abbey
  • Writing
  • History
  • Past

• Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • World
  • Long
  • History

• We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Remember
  • Extremes
  • Suspicion

• My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.

  

  Hayley Atwell
  • Job
  • Greek tragedy

• Twitter is almost novelistic.

  

  John Niven

• While I honor the soldiers in my family, and I am a student of history, the past is the past, and I do not live in the past.

  

  Robert Wilkie
  • History
  • Soldiers
  • Student