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Norman Davies Quotes

It's our vanity that makes us think that what forms part of our world today must be stable and secure.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: June 8, 1939

Topics

Today World Think Vanity Us Must

I always watch the national team games and am a big fan.

Team Games Always Big Watch Big Fan

I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power - far from the demands of business - out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Life Business Power Money Struggle

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

Society Corruption Oppression Common

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

Art Parents Survive Shame Real

'The Marriage of Souls', like 'The Rationalist', is an exploration of humanist philosophy wrapped between the delicate leaves of an eighteenth-century tale. The story of the two novels - and they should be read as a two-volume work - centres around the old war-horse of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl. But what a boy and what a girl.

Work Marriage Girl Story Philosophy

That's what great players do: continue to prove themselves.

Great Prove Players Continue

People are not really interested in what politicians talk about, but what they are really interested in is how their hard-earned tax money is spent.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Money People Tax Talk Politicians

I do think that I have a sensitivity to the depictions of maybe all minorities in literature. And I think that the experience of people who look like me is so rarely captured in big, mainstream American fiction that you tend to sort of empathize with any character of color who pops up.

Character Experience People Me Think

Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

Father Kitchen Doors Down Know Said

I'm tired of being in a band, but I do want to continue making records and performing, at least a little bit. Making the records isn't always fun. It's fun to be finished with them. Making beautiful things can be quite painful.

Beautiful Fun Tired Want Band

The ground beneath you is shifting, and either you get sucked in by holding on to old ways, or you take a giant step forward by taking some risks and seeing what happens.

Risks Step Forward You Seeing Old

I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.

Good Experience I Am Think You Bad

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