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
  • Foolish
  • Vain
  • 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

• When you're a comic, it's like being born gay. It's what you want to do every night when your other friends are out at night going to parties.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Night
  • Party
  • Gay

• Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Friend
  • Travel
  • Lifetime

• The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.

  

  Nick Blaemire
  • Moments
  • Inspired
  • Able

• 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 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