Sarah Churchwell Quotes

If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

Sarah Churchwell

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• It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Time
  • Great
  • Year

• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Sea
  • Forest

• One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Up
  • Memories
  • Internet

• The stratosphere is a hostile place.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Place
  • Hostile
  • Stratosphere

• What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Children

• When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Time
  • Hope

• Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • War
  • Generation
  • Own

• Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Everything

• I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.

  

  Valentina Matviyenko
  • Believe
  • Practice
  • Decisions

• Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Men
  • Job
  • Modeling

• I have an appreciation for everywhere I've been so far.

  

  OMI
  • Appreciation
  • Been
  • Far

• I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Best
  • Boy
  • Years

• I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Work
  • Relationship

• For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Comedy
  • Richer
  • Larger

• There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Internet

• I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Future
  • Always
  • Care

• America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Justice
  • Progress

• Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Faith

• Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Good
  • Now
  • Embrace

• I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Care
  • Husband
  • Ability

• The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Party

• Why you play with my heart and not show love consistently? I put my life on the line, you wouldn't take that risk for me Fucked up my trust, wish I could delete all our memories Keep poppin' these pills, I hope it take away my misery

  

  Polo G
  • Heart
  • Memories
  • Would

• If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

  

  Sarah Churchwell
  • Party
  • Memories
  • Ends