Nicholson Baker Quotes

History isn't a seesaw. If you have a really bad regime on one side, the actions on the other side don't automatically become good. It doesn't work that way.

Nicholson Baker

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• There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • History

• I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

  

  Harry Browne
  • History
  • Liberty
  • Security

• The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Family
  • History
  • Past

• White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • History
  • Popular

• People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • History
  • Weird

• I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Work
  • History
  • Peace

• We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • World
  • Experience

• Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • History
  • Mother
  • Poetry

• Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Philosophy
  • Virtue

• You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • History
  • Stereotype

• There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Life
  • Time
  • History

• For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'

  

  Rand Paul
  • History
  • You
  • Build

• A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Life
  • History

• In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • History
  • Rome
  • Italy

• Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • History
  • Human
  • More

• It is only when social movements have receded into past history... that the Church with pride turns around to claim that it was she who abolished slavery, aroused the people to liberty, and emancipated woman.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • People
  • She
  • History

• I don’t see anyone better than me. No player does things that I cannot do myself, but I see things others can’t do. There’s no more complete player than me. I’m the best player in history - in the good and the bad moments.

  

  Cristiano Ronaldo
  • Good
  • Bad
  • History

• The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years' War and of history.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • War
  • History
  • Military

• I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far as you can, for I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Trying
  • Breath
  • Away

• In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility. To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Done
  • Jesus
  • Ethics

• What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Years
  • Better
  • Consistency

• La Mancha is a very macho, chauvinistic society. I saw very clearly that my life had to be in Madrid, and I liberated myself from my mum and dad after high school.

  

  Pedro Almodovar
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• History isn't a seesaw. If you have a really bad regime on one side, the actions on the other side don't automatically become good. It doesn't work that way.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • History
  • Actions
  • Side