Johan Huizinga Quotes

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

Johan Huizinga

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: December 7, 1872 - February 1, 1945

Topics

HistoryFactsConnectionsSenseOnly

I think art can reflect tragedy.

John Corigliano

ArtThinkTragedyReflectI Think

If you persist in your purpose of secession, there will be war - a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government.

Ambrose Burnside

DayPurposeGovernmentFightWar

I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.

Robert Winston

MyselfI AmThinkingEnjoySeeing

I write unreliable narrators because - paradoxically - they're the most honest, true-to-life kind there is.

Ruth Ware

KindWriteHonestBecauseUnreliable

Should a girl like me, in whom the milk of human kindness flows copiously for everyone, from protein-shy Hottentots to the glandular obese, actually aim a few swift boots at the prone form of Sen. Phil Gramm? Nah. But it's tempting.

Molly Ivins

KindnessGirlMeBootsAimMilk

I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball.

Monica Seles

BallPretendUsedWhoDrawnTom

Neom will have a lot of ports, some of them in Saudi Arabia and some of them in Egypt.

Mohammad bin Salman

EgyptWillSomeSaudiThemArabia

When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being.

Donald Hall

ChildPeopleLovedNewGrandfather

'Into The Wild' had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and 'Unforgiven' is just a great western with characters that walked the line between right/wrong with an ambiguity that felt very true to frontier life.

Brendan Fletcher

LifeFreedomGreatLovedTrueWild

I think that texting and driving is a 100 percent no-go. I think it should be banned everywhere because you cannot be focused on looking ahead, in the mirrors, being aware of what's around you, and to type on a small keyboard and a small screen.

Allan McNish

LookingSmallThinkDrivingYou

It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.

William Hague

BackTrackGetNecessaryDirect

I've always wanted to win in my hometown.

Paula Creamer

WinHometownAlwaysWanted

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