Alice Corbin Henderson Quotes

No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.

Alice Corbin Henderson

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• Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others.Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot.Edward Smith: What, and don't make you talk?Andy Warhol: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person.Edward Smith: Thank you, Andy.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • People
  • Nice

• Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Character

• This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

  

  Euripides
  • Thought
  • Speak
  • Slavery

• I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me: "Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?".

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Danger
  • Threat

• I imagine our first glimpse of Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will likely be followed by many more as we continually encounter new sights in that endlessly wonderful place.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Heaven
  • Imagine
  • Glimpse

• In high school I went on about three dates.

  

  Sean William Scott
  • School

• Climate change is...a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are least responsible for creating the problem. Despite this, funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even 1 percent of what is needed.

  

  Barbara Stocking
  • Help
  • Death
  • Problem

• Sometimes you just gotta get in front of the camera because sometimes you have a long break between things, or you're auditioning and maybe nothing's really happening.

  

  Jonathan Lipnicki
  • Long
  • Sometimes
  • Break

• We know the left hemisphere has come online when children start to understand language and learn how to speak.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Children
  • Language
  • Hemisphere

• Being brought up in a Christian home and still identifying as Christian, I get pretty annoyed with the Christian lobbies around the world who say gay marriage destroys the family and all that kind of rubbish. They claim to follow someone who always stood up for the oppressed and marginalised.

  

  David Pocock
  • Home
  • Christian
  • Direct

• The environment is not as 'cheap as chips', it's priceless and we all have a part to play in protecting it

  

  David Dickinson
  • Environment
  • Protecting
  • Priceless

• People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.

  

  Lecrae
  • Hurt
  • Choices
  • motivation

• I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • World
  • Study
  • Politician

• My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations.

  

  Nigel Rees
  • Use
  • Laws
  • Quotations

• I conduct very few interviews with veterans. The contemporaneous, or near-contemporaneous, record for WWII is so spectacularly deep that latter-day recollections are largely unnecessary for a historian. Of course, in considering any account, I'm looking for additional sources that can confirm or enlarge that version of events.

  

  Rick Atkinson
  • Historian
  • Considering
  • Additional

• Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about.

  

  Saul David
  • Talking
  • Fiction
  • Historian

• Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into wine, wine to blood, - when they want to impress us with their "science"?

  

  Karlheinz Deschner
  • Believe
  • Water
  • Wine

• No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.

  

  Alice Corbin Henderson
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  • Conquest
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