Famous Quotes
- Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
- Frank Herbert on History
- Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.
- Rob Sheffield on History
- September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
- Doris Lessing on History
- September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.
- Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.
- Novak Djokovic on History
- Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.
- Matt Groening on History
- Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.
- Jim DeMint on History
- Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin on History
- Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on History
- So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.
- Sidney Poitier on History
- So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
- Henry Louis Gates on History
- So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
- Milton Friedman on History
- So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.
- Murray Gell-Mann on History
- Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.
- J. C. Watts on History
- Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
- Pierre Teilhard De Chardin on History
- Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.
- Prince Charles on History
- Sometimes - history needs a push.
- Vladimir Lenin on History
- Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
- Thurgood Marshall on History
- Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
- Thomas Jefferson on History
- Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.
- Sandra Day O'Connor on History
- Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
- Stephen Gardiner on History
- Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt on History
- Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
- Ani DiFranco on History
- Strip malls are history.
- Jeff Bezos on History
- Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
- Winston Churchill on History
- Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
- William O. Douglas on History
- Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
- Jacques Chirac on History
- Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.
- Ricky Williams on History
- Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead on History
- That great dust-heap called 'history'.
- Augustine Birrell on History
- That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
- Aldous Huxley on History
- That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
- William McKinley on History
- That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.
- Murray Walker on History
- The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.'
- Jennifer Sky on History
- The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.
- Byron White on History
- The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
- Potter Stewart on History
- The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
- David Hume on History
- The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
- Nancy Pelosi on History
- The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.
- James McGreevey on History
- The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
- Bruce Springsteen on History
- The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
- Jimmy Carter on History
- The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
- Susan Sontag on History
- The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
- Walter Bagehot on History
- The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
- Noam Chomsky on History
- The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.
- David Cameron on History
- The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.
- Jimmy Carter on History
- The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
- Margaret Fuller on History
- The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
- Aldous Huxley on History
- The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
- Colin Powell on History
- The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
- Dalai Lama on History
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