Rick Atkinson Quotes

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.

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• Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Live
  • Fight
  • Deserve

• There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Truth
  • Darkness
  • Signs

• In high school I went on about three dates.

  

  Sean William Scott
  • School

• One makes war to win, not because it's just.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • War
  • Win

• Beaten biscuits: This is the most laborious of cakes, and also the most unwholesome, even when made in the best manner. We do not recommend it; but there is no accounting for tastes. Children would not eat these biscuits-nor grown persons either, if they can get any other sort of bread. When living in a town where there are bakers, there is no excuse for making Maryland biscuit. Believe nobody that says they are not unwholesome. . . . Better to live on Indian cakes.

  

  Eliza Leslie
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Food

• The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

  

  Alan Hollinghurst
  • Wisdom
  • Writers
  • Tempo

• 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

• The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government.

  

  Ben Bagdikian
  • Government
  • Diversity
  • Ownership

• 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

• Now it is time to build on that, to make it even better, and to bring this amazing product closer to our fans, while making it appealing to new and younger audiences as well.

  

  Jordi Bertomeu
  • Young
  • Product
  • Audiences

• Mindfulness has never been more important considering how the events of the world move in such an accelerated, frantic time. Our attention goes from here to the next thing to the next thing, and we're triggered from one response of fear to one of connection to the threat of loss.

  

  Barnet Bain
  • Attention
  • Connection
  • Move

• The Reverend Douglas Wilson may not be a professional historian, as his detractors say, but he has a strong grasp of the essentials of the history of slavery and its relation to Christian doctrine. Indeed, sad to say, his grasp is a great deal stronger than that of most professors of American history, whose distortions and trivializations disgrace our college classrooms. And the Reverend Mr. Wilson is a fighter, especially effective in defense of Christianity against those who try to turn Jesus' way of salvation into pseudo-moralistic drivel.

  

  Eugene Genovese
  • Slavery
  • Historian
  • Professors

• An eagle uses the negative energy of a storm to fly even higher.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Energy
  • Fly
  • Storm

• 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