Famous Quotes
- And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
- Julien Benda on History
- And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.
- Marco Rubio on History
- And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
- Lord Acton on History
- And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
- Carter G. Woodson on History
- And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.
- David Icke on History
- Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
- Francis Bacon on History
- Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.
- David Cronenberg on History
- Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
- Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt on History
- Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
- Susan Sontag on History
- As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.
- John Hodgman on History
- As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.
- Ayelet Waldman on History
- As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.
- Jennifer Granholm on History
- As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.
- Hillary Clinton on History
- Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.
- Lion Feuchtwanger on History
- Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
- Benjamin Disraeli on History
- At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.'
- Rob Sheffield on History
- At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.
- Roh Moo-hyun on History
- Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
- Will Durant on History
- Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.
- John Podhoretz on History
- Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.
- Dee Dee Myers on History
- Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
- Dante Alighieri on History
- Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
- Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.
- Sachin Tendulkar on History
- Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.
- Drew Barrymore on History
- Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson on History
- Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.
- Francois Hollande on History
- Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
- Benjamin Disraeli on History
- Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.
- Conrad Hall on History
- Black history is American history.
- Morgan Freeman on History
- Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.
- Marty Meehan on History
- Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on History
- Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
- Martin Luther on History
- Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
- Barbara Tuchman on History
- Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.
- James Buchan on History
- But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
- Martin Heidegger on History
- But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
- Damien Hirst on History
- But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.
- George H. W. Bush on History
- But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.
- But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
- Richard Dawkins on History
- But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
- Dan Rather on History
- But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?
- Jim Wallis on History
- But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.
- Krist Novoselic on History
- But, it's because we have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history that we had. We have to dig deeper and we have to do much more in order to be seen and to be spotted.
- Novak Djokovic on History
- By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.
- David Attenborough on History
- Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.
- James Buchan on History
- Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
- Henry Adams on History
- China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.
- James Dyson on History
- Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
- Ralph Abernathy on History
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