Marc Bloch Quotes

'The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.'

Marc Bloch

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• A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Help
  • Stop

• 'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.

  

  Caitlin Hale
  • School
  • Rock
  • Doctor

• I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Time
  • Stupid
  • Speak

• The cat with gloves catches no mice.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Cat
  • Gloves
  • Mice

• Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Done
  • Success
  • Right

• Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• In 1998, I self-published online in order to get a traditional deal.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Order
  • Deal
  • Traditional

• In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Political
  • Government

• 'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Word
  • Feminist
  • Feminism

• There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Forever
  • Years
  • Stones

• There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • People
  • Brilliant
  • Helped

• If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords incorrectly and make up an easy rule for fixing them. You could decide to add 1 to each number in your password, so that 2x6Y is written as 3x7Y.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • Better
  • Write

• I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do.

  

  Oliver North
  • Want
  • Leadership
  • Security

• We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • War
  • Think
  • Against

• I always dreamed about getting on TV and being part of a team - a funny ensemble.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Funny
  • Team
  • Always

• You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Think
  • Know
  • Positive

• When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Heart
  • Explore

• Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Learning
  • Chance
  • Direction

• You will never solve problems unless you face them head on.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Problems
  • Face
  • Solve

• Before 'Y Tu Mama,' I did 16 movies that only my family got to see because I invited them to the premiere.

  

  Diego Luna
  • Family

• Proust, my big inspiration for 'Goon Squad,' uses music a lot in his novel, both in terms of plot and structure. I liked the idea of doing the same thing, which is one reason I structured 'Goon Squad' as a record album, with an A side and a B side, that's built around the contrasting sounds of the individual numbers in it.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Idea

• The ups and downs of this cosmos may sometimes be acknowledged to be metaphorical ups and downs, but until about Newton's time most people took the "up" of heaven and the "down" of hell to be more or less descriptive.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Heaven
  • Sometimes
  • Hell

• 'The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.'

  

  Marc Bloch