710 Quotes About Historical

I’d not wed you if you were the last creature in the kingdom.

Numa época em que a Revolução Industrial britânica começava a redefinir as relações económicas e o futuro das nações, os portugueses ainda estavam presos ao sistema extrativista e mercantilista sobre o qual tinham construído a sua efémera prosperidade três séculos antes. (...) "Era uma riqueza que não gerava riqueza", escreveu a historiadora Lilia Schwarcz. "Portugal contentava-se em sugar as suas colónias de maneira bastante parasitária.

You made a lifetime commitment before God and the world. A silly thing like a divorce doesn’t reverse it.

Raoul felt suddenly impatient. 'Heart of a man, if the Lady Elfrida will trust herself to me I will have her in spite of every customary usage!''There spoke the Norman,' Edgar said softly. 'Marauding, grasping, marking his prey!

Dear God, I don't want my fear to be a barrier to the blessings you are trying to bestow. Cast out my fear, and help me to trust your perfect love. But also grant me a full measure of wisdom. Do not let me be led astray by my own desires. If it is not your will that I pursue a relationship with Levi, I pray that you will stop me. Make your message so clear that I cannot argue it away. Protect me, Lord, and show me the way I should go.

A kunokat vidám, dalolós kedvű népnek ismertem meg. Szívből nevettek, mindig az élet napsütötte oldalát keresték, nyíltan, a szemünkbe nézve beszéltek, és ölni is képesek voltak a barátjukért.

Steep curving stone stairs led to a square library on the floor above. The 4,000 books in the library were mostly collected between 1710 and 1730. ... For a moment I was tempted to ask to be locked in. If I could skim ten books a day for a year, I would be able to get a sense of most of what David Hume might have read in 1730 -- an age when it still might just have been possible to read everything.

Sons of a revolution fight for liberty. They give blood, flesh, limbs, their very lives. But daughters . . . we sacrifice our eternal souls.

I’m not only my father’s daughter, but also a daughter of the nation he founded. And protecting both is what I’ve always done.