Douglas Brinkley Quotes

History chalks up Mr. McKinley's War as a U.S. win, and he also polls favorably as a 'near great' president.

Douglas Brinkley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 14, 1960

Topics

HistoryGreatWarWinPresidentUp

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

CourageDeathUpScaredBeing

As of late, I am more of a homebody. I like having people over. You can smoke in the apartment. I'm just not into going out so much. The crowd is getting younger and younger.

Chloe Sevigny

I AmPeopleYouLateSmokeMore

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

Chen Guangcheng

SmallJailOutBiggerComeEntered

I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give young people something to think about, like the future, that's a better use of my time.

Arnold Palmer

FutureTimePastPeopleBetter

By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition.

Antonin Scalia

MarriageLawEnemyHumanChallenger

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

William S. Paley

PowerHistoryEngageVicesWho

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

HistoryTimeWordsLookMeanText

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Pericles

LiveSeaGreatMenLandEat

I have a great house.

Shia LaBeouf

GreatHouse

I don't think 'Motherhood' is a map for women. I would never say that it's a template for every woman in response to her biology.

Sheila Heti

WomenWomanMotherhoodThinkBiology

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

Thomas Bulfinch

HappinessBestLiteratureVirtue

Something I had learned from 30 years as a psychotherapist turned Fortune 500 executive coach when helping people to calm down is that it is much less important what you tell others than what you enable them to tell you and, in the process, tell themselves that results in them calming themselves down.

Mark Goulston

PeopleCalmProcessYouDownCoach

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