James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 13/09/2026“The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong, are ‘accept responsibility.’” — Billie Jean King 011
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 07/09/2026“That is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.” — Ernest Hemingway 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 25/08/2026“Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” — Dolly Parton 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 10/08/2026“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 29/07/2026"Jesus can look like whatever you want Him to look like, but if you need Him to look like you for his teachings to be valid, than perhaps you should ask yourself what exactly it is that you're following." — Aslan Pahari 011
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 27/07/2026“In a nation born out of an act of protest, there is nothing more patriotic than standing up for what you believe in, even if it goes against those in power.” — Tammy Duckworth 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 10/07/2026“The truth of the matter is, of course, that we all are freaks, aren’t we? There is no normal, there is no standard, God made us in different ways. Thankfully.” — Richard O'Brien 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 08/07/2026“A healed femur is the earliest evidence of a true civilization.” — Margaret Mead (paraphrased) 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 14/06/2026“Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.” — Juvenal, Roman poet (55–128 CE) 010
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 13/06/2026“Writing is a privilege and a luxury. Anybody who whines about writers block should be forced to clean squid all day.” — Anthony Bourdain 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 23/05/2026"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are or that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition, and then admit that we just don't want to do it." — Stephen Colbert 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 04/05/2026“The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.” — Carl Sagan 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 21/04/2026“Reach for the stars, and if you don’t quite get there, you still might reach the moon.” — Frank Frazetta 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 03/04/2026"Knowing I'm going to die brings meaning to the days that remain." — Neil DeGrasse Tyson 010
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 01/03/2026"I have actually worked with so many wonderful men, and I've never met a man I didn't like, and I've never met a man whose ass I couldn't kick if he didn't treat me with the right respect." — Dolly Parton 020
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 12/02/2026“Silence becomes a kind of crime when it operates as a cover or an encouragement to the guilty.” — Thomas Paine 031
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 11/02/2026“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” — G.K. Chesterton 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 10/02/2026“This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.” — Theodore Roosevelt 011
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 09/02/2026“A faith of convenience is a hollow faith.” — Father Mulcahy, "M*A*S*H" 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 07/02/2026“Historically, the most terrible things—war, genocide, slavery—have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” — Howard Zinn 011
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 06/02/2026“Never associate with idiots on their own level, because, being an intelligent man, you’ll try to deal with them on their level — and on their level they’ll beat you every time.” — Jean Cocteau 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 03/02/2026“People incapable of guilt usually do have a good time.” — Rust Cohle, "True Detective" 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 02/02/2026“If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.” — Neil Simon 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 29/01/2026“If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.” — Harvey Milk 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 28/01/2026“Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.” — Albert Einstein 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 27/01/2026“There is nothing more dangerous to a regime predicated on lies than witnesses who capture the truth.” — Jon Stewart 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 24/01/2026"Love everybody, but never sell your sword." — Paulo Coelho 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 22/01/2026"Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?" — Scarecrow, "The Wizard of Oz" 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 21/01/2026"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers." — Henry David Thoreau 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 20/01/2026“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” — The Dalai Lama 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 19/01/2026“It is just thinkable that books may some day be written by machinery.” — George Orwell, 1945 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 18/01/2026“The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.” — Rutherford B. Hayes 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 17/01/2026"One wrong statistic about the stock market and suddenly we're in a Great Depression; one misattributed quote from a candidate and you put a fascist in the White House. The rules are there for a reason ... That's not luck, that's being a good reporter." — Snapper Carr, "Supergirl" 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 16/01/2026“Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 15/01/2026"But he saw too that in America the struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word 'Fascism' and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty." — Sinclair Lewis, "It Can't Happen Here," 1935 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 14/01/2026“Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.” — G.K. Chesterton 010
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 11/01/2026“You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.” — Henry Rollins 010
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 10/01/2026“The richest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or happy, and the happiest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or rich.” — Frank Zappa 010
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 03/01/2026"If God had let me choose any era in which to live, I would have chosen this one. Now, that’s a strange statement to make because the world is all messed up ... But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 010
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 02/01/2026“Everybody has plans until they get hit for the first time.” — Mike Tyson 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 31/12/2025“Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 09/11/2025"Quand le peuple n'aura plus rien à manger, il mangera le riche." ("When the people have nothing left to eat, they will eat the rich.") — Jean-Jacques Rousseau (aprocryphally) 010
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 04/11/2025"It is useless to argue with a man whose opinion is based upon a personal or pecuniary interest; the only way to deal with him is to outvote him." — William Jennings Bryan 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 01/11/2025"It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff." — Fred Rogers 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 30/10/2025"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but give your money away, shorties." — Billie Eilish 021
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 27/10/2025“The only way to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower 001
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 10/10/2025"Look up to the sky; you'll never find rainbows if you're looking down." — Charlie Chaplin 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 01/10/2025“We all have chapters we would rather keep unpublished.” — Lord Grantham, “Downton Abbey” 000
James Husband @historynuggets.bsky.social · 29/09/2025"You don't need to speak overtly about religion in order to get a message across.” — Fred Rogers 000
