William H. Prescott Quotes

The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those of a Scott or a Shakspeare will be renewed with greater and greater lustre in ages yet unborn, when the victorious chieftain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in the song of the minstrel and the page of the chronicler.

William H. Prescott

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• I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Free
  • Myself

• Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Been
  • Balkans

• I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Better

• Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Acting
  • Living
  • Creating

• We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Great
  • Value
  • Proposition

• It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Past
  • Present
  • Forever

• The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Education
  • Value
  • California

• I did not come to NASA to make history.

  

  Sally Ride
  • History
  • Did
  • NASA

• Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Defense
  • Million
  • Homeland

• I feel good. I think everything went good.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Good
  • Think
  • Feel Good

• Chelsea are a big club - we have to win titles and to qualify for the Champions League. There's a lot to do, but we'll try to do it all.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Win
  • Try
  • Champions

• There has been a terrible hemorrhage of educated women to the West where they can flourish. I understand, but it is terrible. We must stay home.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Home
  • Educated

• Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Children
  • Right
  • Stability

• I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Have Fun

• There's no wrong time to make the right decision.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Time
  • Decision
  • Right

• I have always been drawn to fashion from an aesthetic and consumer standpoint. I honestly never thought that I could take my business training and apply it here. I worked in retail and was into fashion. It was something I liked, and people trusted my opinion.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Business
  • Fashion

• My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned the greatest thing in life.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Life
  • Song
  • Words

• «Sometimes the best decision is to make no decision, which is also to make a decision.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy
  • Decision

• Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country.

  

  Daniel Greenberg
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.

  

  John Polkinghorne
  • World
  • Experience
  • Science

• I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Work
  • Door
  • View

• The conditions for harassment are built into the very structure of the trucking business, beginning with the training process.

  

  Mary Pilon
  • Business
  • Beginning
  • Training

• If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Song
  • Moon
  • Coffee

• The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those of a Scott or a Shakspeare will be renewed with greater and greater lustre in ages yet unborn, when the victorious chieftain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in the song of the minstrel and the page of the chronicler.

  

  William H. Prescott
  • Song
  • Forgotten
  • Warrior