Leopold von Ranke Quotes

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.

Leopold von Ranke

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• Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Why
  • Door
  • Speak

• Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Sometimes

• There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • People
  • Writing
  • Reality

• Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Broken
  • Stand
  • Would

• I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Time
  • Get
  • Cinema

• Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Really
  • Were
  • Blur

• If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110%, or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.

  

  Dan Barber
  • Free
  • Thing
  • Eating

• I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Time
  • World
  • Winning

• America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • People
  • America
  • Land

• And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Art
  • Understanding

• Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • You
  • Small
  • Kind

• There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Up
  • Different
  • Mind

• True believers aren’t real receptive to the idea that what they’re telling you is just mythology.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Real
  • True

• Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Friends

• The verb 'fuck' has been a part of the language since at least early 1500s. The actual practice, far longer. So, no need to be embarrassed of either.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Practice

• If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • Good

• Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother who was in and out of my life like a yo-yo and a father who was faceless, I was angry.

  

  Jarrett J. Krosoczka
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.

  

  Bob Taft
  • Good
  • Job
  • Kids

• Androgyny is embedded in our cultural mythology. In many creation stories, the great ‘He-She’ created life on earth, and the Hindu fertility god, Shiva, assumed both sexes to attain “divine sensual delight.” Often, shamans achieved their ‘mana’ (air of sacred authority) by assuming a double-sexed persona.

  

  Betsy Prioleau
  • Mythology
  • Androgyny
  • Shamans

• Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

  

  William Feather
  • Work
  • Forget
  • Trouble

• I am destined to proclaim the message, unmindful of personal consequences to myself.

  

  Nicolaus Zinzendorf
  • Message
  • Consequences
  • Proclaim

• Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Nothing
  • Witty
  • Mythology

• It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.

  

  Leopold von Ranke
  • History
  • Memories
  • Mythology