Quotes about chronicle
A collection of quotes on the topic of chronicle, time, timing, history.
Quotes about chronicle

“He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.”

“There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.”
Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.”

“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
Source: A Room with a View (1908), Ch. 14
Source: A Room With A View
"Magnetic Sleep", review of From Mesmer to Freud by Adam Crabtree, originally published in [London] Daily Telegraph (1994)
A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996)
Hindu Temples – What Happened to Them, Volume II (1993)

the scattered plasticity of that nameless sky-spawn was nebulously recombining in its hateful original form...
Fiction, The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
Ante-Nicene Christian library: v. 3 p. 42
Address to the Greeks

“It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Shams Siraj Afif cited in Lal, K. S. (1994). Muslim slave system in medieval India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 12

John S Brewer Giraldi Cambrensis Opera Vol. 1 (1861), p. xl.
Criticism

Sjálfstætt fólk (Independent People) (1935), Book One, Part I: Icelandic Pioneers

[The fact appears to be that] “After eight centuries of galling subjection to conquerors totally ignorant of the classical language of the Hindus; after every capital city had been repeatedly stormed and sacked by barbarous, bigoted, and exasperated foes; it is too much to expect that the literature of the country should not have sustained, in common with other interests, irretrievable losses.”
James Tod, Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, Routledge and Kegan Paul (London,l829,1957), 2 vols., I quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 3

"N.Y. State of Mind Pt. II"
On Albums, I Am... (1999)
Source: The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India (1992), Chapter 3

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam, 2005, ISBN 0-89526-013-1, pp. 221-224 http://books.google.com/books?id=_7RD2jwMU2wC&pg=PA221

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

"Introduction" https://books.google.com/books?id=Ss5tAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q&f=false (1902), Progress of a Race: Or, The Remarkable Advancement of the Afro-American
1900s

Source: The Philosopher's Apprentice (2008), Chapter 6 (pp. 128-129)
Source: Muslim Slave System in Medieval India (1994), Chapter 12
Indian Muslims: Who Are They (1990)

The Future of Democracy: A Defence Of The Rules Of The Game (1984), Ch. 7: The Rule of Men or the Rule of Law

[Heisler, Mark, Larger Than Life, The Los Angeles Times, 1999-10-13]
Post-NBA life

1981 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1981.html
Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)

Turner, Lark (April 23, 2014). "Late Wikipedia editor Adrianne Wadewitz was exceptional, and if you use Wikipedia, you'll miss her" http://www.bustle.com/articles/22158-late-wikipedia-editor-adrianne-wadewitz-was-exceptional-and-if-you-use-wikipedia-youll-miss-her. Bustle.com.
About

"People" (1961), line 1; Robin Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi (trans.) Selected Poems (London: Penguin, 2008) p. 85.
K. S. Lal, Studies in Medieval History, p.86
The Ayodhya temple-mosque dispute: Focus on Muslim sources (1993)

Lectures and Essays https://archive.org/details/lecturesandessa00havegoog (1895), p. 245
Within the Context of No Context (1980)
Source: Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India (1999), Chapter 6

Prolegomenon
New Testament History : A Narrative Account (2001)

Cromwell's preamble to the Act in Restraint of Appeals, March 1533.

"Sir Walter Scott" (1838), p. 239.
Biographical and Critical Miscellanies
'Harry Potter Envy', on bestsellerdom
Television and radio, Radio 4: A Point of View
Ch 3
Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India (1999)

Koenraad Elst: Religious Cleansing of Hindus, 2004, Agni conference in The Hague, and in: K. Elst The Problem with Secularism, 2007

Presentation at Carleton College, Nov 30 1960
[How we die: reflections on life's final chapter, Vintage, 1995, Random House, 1995, 8, https://books.google.com/books?id=ffj03ghdnqwC&pg=PA8]
How We Die (1994)

From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (August 24, 1923)
Letters

Stealth jihad: how radical Islam is subverting America without guns or bombs, 2008, ISBN 9781596985568, pp. 270-273 http://books.google.com/books?id=3eLfhvNQBkgC&pg=PA270
… France and Germany have pursued a different strategy, attempting to establish the European Union as a global counterweight of the United States—a strategy that involves close cooperation with the Arab League.
Source: Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India (1999), Chapter 7
Source: The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India (1992), Chapter 3

Speech at the annual dinner of The Royal Society of St. George (6 May 1924), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 2.
1924
Source: The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India (1992), Chapter 8
"Senseless Signs of History", p. 34
The Panda's Thumb (1980)
Source: The Shape of Time, 1982, p. 13

pg. xix
The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801), Olaf Tryggeson
Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India (1999)

Source: The 25-Year War: America's Military Role in Vietnam (1984), p. 209

Shams Siraj Afif, quoted in Lal, K. S. (1999). Theory and practice of Muslim state in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 3
The just and merciful human behaves toward animals as a just and merciful Creator behaves toward humans.
“Hierarchy, Kinship, and Responsibility: The Jewish Relationship to the Animal World,” in A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics, edited by Paul Waldau and Kimberly Patton (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006), 97 https://books.google.it/books?id=wi4n8i4YgpYC&pg=PA97-98.

"And the beat goes on", http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/09/DD158147.DTL San Francisco Chronicle, 2003-06-09.
2000s

“Chroniclers habitually matched numbers to the awesomeness of the event.”
Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 554

"Richard Wright's Blues" (1945), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 129.

Which Greek and Hebrew texts of the Bible did Luther use?

1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), The Present Time (February 1, 1850)
Context: Between our Black West Indies and our White Ireland, between these two extremes of lazy refusal to work, and of famishing inability to find any work, what a world have we made of it, with our fierce Mammon-worships, and our benevolent philanderings, and idle godless nonsenses of one kind and another! Supply-and-demand, Leave-it-alone, Voluntary Principle, Time will mend it:—till British industrial existence seems fast becoming one huge poison-swamp of reeking pestilence physical and moral; a hideous living Golgotha of souls and bodies buried alive; such a Curtius' gulf, communicating with the Nether Deeps, as the Sun never saw till now. These scenes, which the Morning Chronicle is bringing home to all minds of men,—thanks to it for a service such as Newspapers have seldom done,—ought to excite unspeakable reflections in every mind. Thirty thousand outcast Needlewomen working themselves swiftly to death; three million Paupers rotting in forced idleness, helping said Needlewomen to die: these are but items in the sad ledger of despair.

The Histories
Context: Had previous chroniclers neglected to speak in praise of History in general, it might perhaps have been necessary for me to recommend everyone to choose for study and welcome such treatises as the present, since men have no more ready corrective of conduct than knowledge of the past. But all historians, one may say without exception, and in no half-hearted manner, but making this the beginning and end of their labour, have impressed on us that the soundest education and training for a life of active politics is the study of History, and that surest and indeed the only method of learning how to bear bravely the vicissitudes of fortune, is to recall the calamities of others. Evidently therefore no one, and least of all myself, would think it his duty at this day to repeat what has been so well and so often said. For the very element of unexpectedness in the events I have chosen as my theme will be sufficient to challenge and incite everyone, young and old alike, to peruse my systematic history. For who is so worthless or indolent as not to wish to know by what means and under what system of polity the Romans in less than fifty-three years have succeeded in subjecting nearly the whole inhabited world to their sole government — a thing unique in history? Or who again is there so passionately devoted to other spectacles or studies as to regard anything as of greater moment than the acquisition of this knowledge?

Is It Bill Bailey? (TV, 1998)
“Sometimes it is hard to criticize, one wants only to chronicle.”
"Verse Chronicle," The Nation (23 February 1946); reprinted as "Bad Poets" in Poetry and the Age (1953)
General sources
Context: Sometimes it is hard to criticize, one wants only to chronicle. The good and mediocre books come in from week to week, and I put them aside and read them and think of what to say; but the "worthless" books come in day after day, like the cries and truck sounds from the street, and there is nothing that anyone could think of that is good enough for them. In the bad type of thin pamphlets, in hand-set lines on imported paper, people's hard lives and hopeless ambitions have expressed themselves more directly and heartbreakingly than they have ever expressed in any work of art: it is as if the writers had sent you their ripped-out arms and legs, with "This is a poem" scrawled on them in lipstick. After a while one is embarrassed not so much for them as for poetry, which is for these poor poets one more of the openings against which everyone in the end beats his brains out; and one finds it unbearable that poetry should be so hard to write — a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey in which there is for most of the players no tail, no donkey, not even a booby prize.
Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 3

Now, I don't actually think that's the first thing he wrote: he probably wrote 'my brain is melting' ten thousand times, but it was the book that the critics latched on to.
Is It Bill Bailey? (TV, 1998)