J. B. Bury Quotes

Writing the history of the present is always a very different thing from writing the history of the distant past. The history of the distant past depends entirely on literary and documentary sources; the history of the present always involves unwritten material as well as documents. But the difference was much greater in the days of Thucydides than it is now.

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• The whole New Deal was in a sense just a series of public options, some more optional than others, that offered government as an alternative to the often-flawed private market.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Market
  • New Deal

• Goodbyes are sad, no matter what the promise of tomorrow is.

  

  Janet Leigh
  • Sad
  • Matter
  • Promise

• It's going to be a big topic of discussion.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Conversation
  • Discussion
  • Topic

• Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • Long
  • Politician
  • Rude

• God is equipping you, protecting you, & readying you to fight for the mission He has given you to change the world.

  

  Paige Omartian
  • World
  • God
  • Fighting

• ...as for me, I am intact; and I don't care.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Care
  • Intact

• I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • System
  • Glad
  • Laborer

• I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's flawed, I wrote it. All of that goes into the mix, but I love the controversy. It elevates the conversation.

  

  William P. Young
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Theology

• Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Poverty
  • Virtue
  • Rich

• So how come it looks so beautiful? How come the moon falls from the sky?

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Beautiful
  • Fall
  • Looks

• Everyone flatters himself and carries a kingdom in his breast.

  

  John Calvin
  • Kingdom
  • Breast
  • Flatters

• Busy is good, isn't it? Busy means we're hard at it, achieving our ends or "goals." Haven't had time to stop, or look around or think. That's considered the sign of a life well lived ... Suppose, though, you're not sure that what you're doing is at all worthwhile. Suppose you blundered into it over a spoonful of lime pickle. It's easy, it pays quite well. But really it's a distraction. It stops you thinking about what you ought to be doing.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Goal

• The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Work
  • Family
  • Reagan-Bush

• A picture story is a sequence of images combined with text in such a way that pictures and words reinforce each other. They produce a planned, organized combination giving detailed account of an event, personality or aspect of life.

  

  Arthur Rothstein
  • Picture
  • Story
  • Combination

• Success breeds confidence.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Success
  • Confidence

• I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimulated, is to liberate your imagination.

  

  John C. McGinley
  • Imagination
  • Bored
  • Stimulated

• The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Creativity
  • Secret
  • Knowing

• History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right at home on reality tv.

  

  Esther M. Friesner
  • History
  • Gossip
  • Historians

• Writing the history of the present is always a very different thing from writing the history of the distant past. The history of the distant past depends entirely on literary and documentary sources; the history of the present always involves unwritten material as well as documents. But the difference was much greater in the days of Thucydides than it is now.

  

  J. B. Bury
  • Sources
  • Historians
  • Ancient Greek