Edward Hallett Carr Quotes

The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context.

Edward Hallett Carr

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• What we have to remember is that children matter as much as adults, but they aren't equal with adults.

  

  Linda Blair
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Adults

• I wouldn't take on the project unless I could have complete creative control in casting.

  

  Craig Brewer
  • Control
  • Project
  • Casting

• There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.

  

  Daniel Schorr
  • Men
  • Country
  • Trying

• Some McDonald's restaurants are taking reservations on Valentine's Day. They are getting a lot of tables for one.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Restaurants
  • Valentine's Day
  • McDonald

• Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • Real
  • True

• Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Vain
  • Foolish
  • Wicked

• I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Believe
  • Said
  • Comeback

• The best ideas are common property.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Ideas
  • Property

• Truth does not judge.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • Truth
  • Judge

• There's no map for being an artist.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Artist
  • Map

• I didn't know what to expect coming to college. High school was pretty easy and I guess I expected college to be along the same route. It was just an overwhelming experience.

  

  Chase Utley
  • School
  • College
  • Easy

• The phytochemicals, antioxidants, and fiber- all of the healthful components of plant foods - originate in plants, not animals. If they are present, it is because the animal ate plants. And why should we go through an animal to get the benefits of the plants themselves? To consume unnecessary, unseemly, and unhealthy substances, such as saturated fat, animal protein, lactose, and dietary cholesterol, is to negate the benefits of the fiber, phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that are prevalent and inherent in plants.

  

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
  • Plants
  • Components
  • Healthful

• Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse, for there was no object or text to ridicule or refute, to accuse, criticize, attack, amend, hate, revile, spit at, rip to shreds, trample upon or burn up.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Hate
  • Differences
  • Rip

• Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Love
  • Passion

• It must be the aim of education to teach the citizen that he must first of all rule himself.

  

  Winthrop W. Aldrich
  • Education
  • Citizen
  • Himself

• The librarians know the secrets, not the historians

  

  Dee Brown
  • Book
  • Secret
  • Library

• It's about time for Lindell White to get back on the floor, expose himself, and get the ball in a scoring position.

  

  Billy Packer
  • Position
  • Floor
  • Expose

• The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context.

  

  Edward Hallett Carr
  • Historian
  • Context
  • Floor