Famous quotes containing the words history of, disaster, history, takes and/or present:
“There is no history of how bad became better.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“We are all murderers and prostitutes—no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.”
—R.D. (Ronald David)
“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)