Famous quotes containing the words big o, big, history and/or hardy:
“Schools of fish come to those who wait patiently; if the big ones don’t come, the little ones will.”
—Chinese proverb.
“God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
“My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)