Ann Brashares Quotes

The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a sequence of such revolutionary selections, separated by periods of normal research, is the wonderfully adapted set of instruments we call modern scientific knowledge.

With fewer and fewer corporations controlling more and more of the world's trade, there is an ever greater need to know more about the practices of these large faceless organizations.

Most Christians are educated way beyond the level of their obedience already! We don’t need to know more, we need to do more.

History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.

You've gotta love the game. To become really good, you need to live it and sleep it.

[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.

Everything has been something before.

For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

Life and values do run in cycles.

Every revolution eventually needs a new revolution.

The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the steps by which these possessions were acquired, and the documents by which they are secured to us and our heirs for ever.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.

Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.

History is the same thing over and over again.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?" "Yes," said Harry stiffly. "Yes, sir." "There's no need to call me "sir" Professor." The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.

It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.