Charles River Editors > Quotes

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” – Judy Garland”
― Charles River Editors, Hollywood’s 10 Greatest Actresses: Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, and Joan Crawford

“Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” – Mary Tyler Moore”
― Charles River Editors, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore: The Premiere Sitcom Stars of the ‘60s and ‘70s

“You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation”
― Charles River Editors, American Legends: The Life of Billie Holiday

“There is no substitute for victory.” – Douglas MacArthur”
― Charles River Editors, American Legends: The Life of General Douglas MacArthur

“Thousands of British soldiers would eventually starve to death despite the fact incredible quantities of food were stockpiled only a few miles distant.”
― Charles River Editors, The Charge of the Light Brigade: The History and Legacy of Europe’s Most Famous Cavalry Charge

“The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their               power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.”
― Charles River Editors, The Beer Hall Putsch: The History and Legacy of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party’s Failed Coup Attempt in 1923

“I wish nothing but good; therefore, everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.” – King George III”
― Charles River Editors, British Legends: The Life and Legacy of King George III

“Yet why did not the Æsir kill the Wolf, seeing they had expectation of evil from him?" Hárr answered: "So greatly did the gods esteem their holy place and sanctuary, that they would not stain it with the Wolf's blood; though (so say the prophecies) he shall be the slayer of Odin.”
― Charles River Editors, Norse Mythology: The History of the Norse Pantheon and the Most Famous Myths

“My shame is as big as the earth…I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but it is hard for me to believe the white man anymore.” – Black Kettle”
― Charles River Editors, The Sand Creek Massacre: The History and Legacy of One of the Indian Wars’ Most Notorious Events

“However, as bad as things were, the worst was yet to come, for germs would kill more people than bullets. By the time that last fever broke and the last quarantine sign came down, the world had lost 3-5% of its population.”
― Charles River Editors, The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic: The History and Legacy of the World’s Deadliest Influenza Outbreak

“I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.” – Manfred von Richthofen”
― Charles River Editors, The Red Baron: The Life and Legacy of Manfred von Richthofen

“Now a married woman at the age of 25, Sharon was much more than a “scatterbrain.” Like most people her age, she was very interested in politics and was a big fan of Bobby Kennedy. On the evening of June 3, 1968, during what proved to be his final fundraising tour, she attended a dinner in his honor at the home of director John Frankenheimer. That evening, she had the thrill of getting to speak to Kennedy and his wife, Ethel, just two days before he was assassinated.”
― Charles River Editors, Roman Polanski & Sharon Tate: The Controversial Life of the Director and Notorious Death of the Actress

“The second effect was to impress on Hitler's warped but extremely keen mind that a revolution by force was impractical and doomed to failure. The true method of gaining power was to insinuate himself into the power structure, then find the flaws in the legal system – the inevitable loopholes left by human mortality's limitations – in order to exploit them boldly and powerfully.”
― Charles River Editors, The Beer Hall Putsch: The History and Legacy of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party’s Failed Coup Attempt in 1923

“The Norse mythology offers no suggestions that Thor’s sacrifice would be rewarded in any way, which makes the sacrifice of Thor and his willingness to struggle to the end major reasons why his followers were attracted to him.”
― Charles River Editors, Norse Mythology: The History of the Norse Pantheon and the Most Famous Myths

“In many ways, it is hard for modern people living in First World countries to conceive of a pandemic sweeping around the world and killing millions of people, and it is even harder to believe that something as common as influenza could cause such widespread illness and death.”
― Charles River Editors, The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic: The History and Legacy of the World’s Deadliest Influenza Outbreak

“threatened at first to overwhelm the lighter soprano instrument of Michelle. Elliot learned to control the instrument in the ensemble, but never relinquished what has been described as her “let it all hang out vitality.”[70] The particular gifts of her voice were in no danger of being stifled, and throughout her career with earlier bands through the post-Mamas and Papas years, her “distinctive voice always emerged from the group in which she sang.”[71] Interested in a variety of genres, Elliot often mentioned her love for classical music, and had appeared regularly as a jazz singer before being drawn into the hippie folk revolution. A Broadway devotee as well, she sang several prominent roles in residence and on tour, and even dueled Barbra Streisand to a near draw for an important role in I Can Get It for You Wholesale on Broadway, before being”
― Charles River Editors, American Legends: The Life of Mama Cass Elliot

“The Hittites called their language Nesili (van de Mieroop 2007, 119), while the Egyptians and Mesopotamians referred to them and their language as “Hittite” and their land as “Hatti” (Faulkner 1999, 198). Technically the Hittites spoke Arzawan (Macqueen 2003, 25), but Arzawa was also the name of a kingdom that neighbored Hatti, and those people also spoke the same language as the Hittites. During the era of the Hittite civilization, there were three written Indo-European languages that coexisted in Anatolia: Hittite/Arzawan, Luwian, and Palic (Anthony 2007, 43). The earliest Hittite inscriptions are dated to around 1900 BCE, which makes the language the oldest written form of any Indo-European language”
― Charles River Editors, The Hittites and Lydians: The History and Legacy of Ancient Anatolia’s Most Influential Civilizations

“In the first decade of the 20th century, drinking rates actually increased. The advertising of alcohol in the early 20th century was sophisticated and was aimed primarily at the upper classes.”
― Charles River Editors, The Prohibition Era in the United States: The History and Legacy of America’s Ban on Alcohol and Its Repeal

“the same time, gangsters seized on what they saw as the perfect sales opportunity. “The business of manufacturing alcohol, liquor and beer will go out of the hands of law-abiding members of the community, and will be transferred to the…criminal class,” warned Yale professor William Taft, the former president who soon would be appointed as Chief of the Supreme Court.”
― Charles River Editors, The Prohibition Era in the United States: The History and Legacy of America’s Ban on Alcohol and Its Repeal

“Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain of the 20th Maine, who so valiantly defended Little Round Top at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, was in command of the Union troops assembled in formation to observe and accept the stacking of arms. In deference to the officers of Lee’s army, Chamberlain lowered his sword in an officer’s salute as each ranking member of his former enemy passed by. Leading the parade of surrender were the surviving members of the Stonewall Brigade. Appendix”
― Charles River Editors, The Stonewall Brigade: The History of the Most Famous Confederate Combat Unit of the Civil War

“There was also a deliberate exploitation of prejudiced mentalities among their listeners by revivalist preachers such as Billy Sunday. Above all, there was a feeling that Prohibition was a winning global crusade, and that those first on the wagon would be first in the promised land.” (Sinclair, 1962).”
― Charles River Editors, The Prohibition Era in the United States: The History and Legacy of America’s Ban on Alcohol and Its Repeal

“Los Misterios se dividían en dos partes principales, los Misterios menores y los Misterios mayores, con una tercera para los que ya habían sido iniciados, llamada epopteia o carga.”
― Charles River Editors, Los misterios de Eleusis: la historia de los ritos religiosos más famosos de la antigua Grecia

“Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky? When you are cold and wet what else can warm you? Before an attack who can say anything that gives you the momentary well-being that rum does?... The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight. You have to do that cold. But it always helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.”
― Charles River Editors, American Legends: The Life of Ernest Hemingway

“El propio nombre Eleusis significaba pasaje o puerta, lo que sugiere que la ubicación era vista como un lugar en el que se encontraban dos mundos, y donde podía encontrarse la puerta entre la vida y la muerte. Una cueva dentro del recinto era vista como la entrada simbólica al inframundo, y el lugar reúne todas las características de tales lugares sagrados; enclavado en una cresta rocosa en la esquina de la fértil llanura tracia y cerca de las aguas de la bahía de Eleusis desde donde se divisa la isla de Salamina.”
― Charles River Editors, Los misterios de Eleusis: la historia de los ritos religiosos más famosos de la antigua Grecia

“In 1913, the Anti-Saloon League attempted a constitutional amendment prohibiting liquor, but the movement didn't gain momentum until World War I, thanks to America's anti-German hysteria and the amount of beer imported from Germany.”
― Charles River Editors, The Prohibition Era in the United States: The History and Legacy of America’s Ban on Alcohol and Its Repeal

“Three days after her birth they had Mary baptized as a Catholic at the Church of the Observant Friars in Greenwich. Still a tiny, squirming child, her life had already been touched by the two great factors which would come to define it: her father’s search for an heir, and the Catholic faith.”
― Charles River Editors, Bloody Mary: The Life and Legacy of England’s Most Notorious Queen

“MGM, nor did it lead to her receiving more adult parts. As soon as The Wizard of Oz was completed,”
― Charles River Editors, American Legends: The Life of Judy Garland

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” – Ernest Hemingway”
― Charles River Editors, American Legends: The Life of Ernest Hemingway

“President's Commission on Campus Unrest concluded in September 1970, “Even if the guardsmen faced danger, it was not a danger that called for lethal force. The 61 shots by 28 guardsmen certainly cannot be justified. Apparently, no order to fire was given, and there was inadequate fire control discipline on Blanket Hill. The Kent State tragedy must mark the last time that, as a matter of course, loaded rifles are issued to guardsmen”
― Charles River Editors, The Kent State Massacre: The History and Legacy of the Shootings That Shocked America

“In the 18th century, a new awareness of the problem emerged and people, especially women, "occasionally banded together to try to persuade, cajole or force other Americans to quit drinking. Such temperance movements were cyclical, much like religious revivals, and they usually appealed to evangelical, middle-class, native-born Protestants” (Phillips, 2005). It”
― Charles River Editors, The Prohibition Era in the United States: The History and Legacy of America’s Ban on Alcohol and Its Repeal