George F. Kennan Quotes

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

George F. Kennan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 16, 1904 - March 17, 2005

Topics

HistoryPeopleProblemsGeneration

I actually have a young readers' series that I wanna do, kind of in the same lane as a Harry Potter or Narnia or Twilight. I want to write stuff like that.

Jhene Aiko

YoungWantKindWriteSameLane

My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you everything you need to know about my attitude to money - I've never really been bothered about it.

Jo Brand

FatherMotherAttitudeMoneyYou

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

Ann Patchett

LoveArtDisciplineLookingYou

I have always believed in 'less is more' in everything I do, from work to my personal life.

Tory Burch

LifeWorkPersonalMoreLess Is More

Writing a screenplay's not rocket science, but I was in a bar, and the bartender came up to me and said, 'I saw 'Night at the Museum,' and the thing about him and his kid brought me and my kid together.' Something like that... it's like, 'Oh, right. That's why we're doing it.'

Robert Ben Garant

ScienceTogetherMeWritingNight

We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.

Mary McDonnell

OpportunityPeopleFactsKnowNever

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

Michael Tolkin

ChangeWaterTreatWineMeetLike

We never did try to get together and to show the younger Negroes such as myself, to try and even to show that he has ambitions - and with just a little encouragement, I could have really done something worthwhile. But instead, we did nothing but let the young upstarts know that they were young and simple, and that was that.

Louis Armstrong

MyselfTogetherSimpleGet Together

Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.

Louis Leterrier

MoviesNeverAbandonedFinished

Too fat, too thin, too loud, too quiet - I was never going to fit the standards others created for me. Instead of complying, I protested.

Ashley Graham

MeFatQuietOthersNeverStandards

I was a loudmouth rock star when I was still in college. Purple hair this week, green hair next week, blond hair the week after. I was doing that fashion before it was really cool.

Pepa

CollegeCoolGreenHairFashion

What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would say.

Timothy Noah

ArgumentPersonSayConservative

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