Dan Bongino Quotes

It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.

In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.

Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.

I'm absolutely positive it's in our human nature to want to know about the past. The two most popular movies of all time, while not historically accurate, are about core historic events: 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Titanic.'

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value; and the precious particles are generally combined with the baser in such a manner that the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty.

It's no accident that Op. 111 attracts literary attention. Though it's music, it doesn't quite behave like it. It seems to be charged with meaning, to communicate in symbols, ciphers, clues.

The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.

There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.

I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.

Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.

The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

The past gives great examples of what can happen in the future. It's always important to remember.

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

A lot of people hear it in a dark way, but, I think, without saying the word too many times, it's empowering, and so we wanted to display that in a way that the listener wouldn't see normally.

History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory.

I wouldn't even say that I'm a rapper. I'd say I'm more of a messenger.

[Louis] Brandeis is writing directly to us. His clear voice comes through a century and he's speaking to us and he's galvanizing us and he's persuading us. And that's why I love to read the prose.

Our history is an aggregate of last moments