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We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
— Daisaku Ikeda
My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibility. Those are the simplest things. It goes beyond jewelry. It's every part of my life.
— Waris Ahluwalia
My opinion is that politicians should be humble in the face of history. And whenever history is a matter of debate, it should be left in the hands of historians and experts.
— Shinzo Abe
We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
— Czeslaw Milosz
Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?
— Gary North
We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
— Oscar de la Renta
All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.
— Bill Bryson
If you go back far enough and get a wider enough picture of history, we have let go of many things that follow a religious narrative. We don't burn witches anymore. Most people would consider that barbaric. We don't sacrifice human beings, which was a religious act practiced by numerous cultures on this planet.
— Greg Graffin
Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.
— David Douglass
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
— Nikita Khrushchev
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
— Henry Ford
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
— Dick Gregory
When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
— Evita Peron
I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
— Christina Aguilera
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
If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
— Ludwig von Mises
Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.
— Robert Walpole
I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.
— Eduard Shevardnadze
If you think you have it tough, read history books.
— Bill Maher
Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.
— Elie Wiesel
Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history.
— Rob Dyrdek
I'm focused on being the best, making history.
— Canelo Alvarez
I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service.
— Fritz Hollings
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
— Harold Washington
I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.
— Ken Burns
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
— Victor Hugo
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
— Franz Kafka
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
There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.
— Tim Burton
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
— Carlos Fuentes
There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are very important to us now.
— Carmen Agra Deedy
Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'
— Maya Angelou
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
— Frank Waters
Time is my greatest enemy.
— Evita Peron
Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
— Haile Selassie
I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.
— Barack Obama
What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude.
— Isabel Wilkerson
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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
It's a very good historical book about history.
— Dan Quayle
In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
— Hugo Black
What Britain needs is an iron lady.
— Margaret Thatcher
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
— Neil Armstrong
I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.
— Kathryn Lasky
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
— Clifton Fadiman
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
— Martin Heidegger
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
— Benito Mussolini
You know, I think the, the crucial thing, you know, we have put in place what is, is just simply the biggest, boldest recovery package in history, right; the stimulus package, biggest ever; the financial rescue, absolutely comprehensive; a housing plan - that is incredible medicine for the economy. And we fully expect it to work.
— Christina Romer
I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.
— Ted Kulongoski
The Gospel is not a theory the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history.
— John Piper
I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.
— Frank Gehry
The American people need to know that there are folks here fighting as hard as they can for individual liberty, economic freedom, appropriate national security and the fundamental moral values that have made our nation the greatest nation in the history of mankind.
— Tom Price
I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil.
— Jane Goodall
I actively pursue experiences that are unlike any others that I've experienced and cultures that I don't know and unfamiliar places and unfamiliar history and things like that.
— Casey Neistat
I went into boxing, and I'm bisexual, and I still achieved and performed at the highest level, and I came away with gold and made history, so with that said, anything is possible.
— Nicola Adams
You can't change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
I am responsible only to God and history.
— Francisco Franco
The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.
— Alfred A. Montapert
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
— Ruth Benedict
For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
— Albert Schweitzer
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
— Margaret Mead
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
— Karl Marx
Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.
— Michael Johns
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
— Leopold Von Ranke
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
— John Acton
The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.
— Chris Chocola
You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.
— Marc Newson
According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example.
— Phillip E. Johnson
If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.
— Christine Keeler
To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.
— Polykarp Kusch
Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.
— Joan Rivers
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
— Salman Rushdie
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
— Hilaire Belloc
I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.
— Judy Chicago
This above all makes history useful and desirable it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
— Livy
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
— Salman Rushdie
There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.
— Benjamin Harrison
You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.
— Tom Hiddleston
Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.
— Bob Costas
What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.
— Scott Walker
So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward.
— Kerry Washington
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
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.
— Anselm Kiefer
In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
— Gary Hamel
If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.
— Neil Postman
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.
— Will Self
In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a greater power and more real than vengeance. The second proclaimed the earth to be a sphere revolving in its course around the sun. These affirmations were made in the face of all evidence sacred to the contrary.
— Louis Sullivan
When I saw that Wrestlemania had broken an indoor attendance record, I just walked into a wrestling office, Championship Wrestling in Florida, during the offseason, and they introduced me to Hiro Matsuda, who became my mentor... and the rest is history!
— Lex Luger
The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn't based on fairy tales. It's based on observable facts in the human and in the biological history of the planet. I think that can be a source for comfort.
— Greg Graffin
In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because I knew I wasn't going to be able to spit back the names and the dates and all that stuff on a test.
— Chuck Close
History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory.
— James Howard Kunstler
The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front.
— Atul Gawande
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
— Alfred North Whitehead
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
— James J. Hill
But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.
— Roy Moore
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
— John Lothrop Motley
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
— James Nasmyth
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
— George Eliot
I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.
— LeRoy Neiman
You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.
— Amin Maalouf
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
— A. Whitney Brown
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
— Grover Cleveland
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
— Henry Kissinger
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
— Irving R. Kaufman
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
— Johnny Depp
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
— Lawrence Durrell
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
— Samuel Butler
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
— William Butler Yeats
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
— Francois Mitterrand
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
— Alfred de Vigny
In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.
— Chesty Puller
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
— Charles Sumner
God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.
— Richard Rohr
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
— Eugene V. Debs
There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.
— Andy Grove
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
— Reggie Jackson
The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
— Branch Rickey
We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.
— Susan Sarandon
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
— W. H. Auden
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
— Winston Churchill
Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
— Arthur Koestler
My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.
— Thomas Vilsack
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
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
— Ludwig von Mises
There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
— Camilo Jose Cela
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.
— Learned Hand
But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.
— Bill Walton
History seems to be so clumsy.
— Robert Johnson
What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.
— Avery Brooks
I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history.
— Albert Reynolds
The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.
— Jared Diamond
I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.
— Dennis Chavez
When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
— Jack Kevorkian
We are looking for targets that have a tremendous strategic fit for the company. The colleges must have complementary education programs, have an excellent reputation, long operating history and solid regulatory compliance.
— John Larson
At many points during our nation's history, there have been times - known in our history textbooks as 'panics' - when adverse conditions affecting the financial and economic sectors of the country have caused individuals to hoard more than they need.
— Jo Bonner
Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.
— John Thorn
True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.
— Lester B. Pearson
Authors want their names down in history I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
— Mickey Spillane
I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.
— Joseph Rotblat
Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.
— George Wald
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
— Allen Tate
Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.
— Steve Yzerman
Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.
— Jacques Ellul
I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.
— Roland Joffe
Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.
— Anatoly Karpov
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
— David McCullough
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
— Henry James
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
— Jean Henri Fabre
The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
— D. H. Lawrence
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
— Woodrow Wilson
America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.
— Carrie P. Meek
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
— Johan Huizinga
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
— Stefan Zweig
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
— Imre Lakatos
It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
— Scarlett Johansson
I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.
— Colin Powell
Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.
— Jack Layton
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
After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.
— Condoleezza Rice
Natural history is not about producing fables.
— David Attenborough
History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.
— Rick Warren
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.
— Ai Weiwei
'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.
— Christopher Hitchens
History is information. Memory is part of your identity.
— David Miliband
History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.
— Preet Bharara
Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.
— Anthony Horowitz
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.
— Terry Eagleton
With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it's something that I feel passionately about, that even though the odds are certainly always uphill, that doesn't mean that I will stop fighting to try to change that.
— Carolyn McCarthy
When I ran the stock exchange, it was the most successful it's been in its 200-plus-year history. And I was rewarded for success; I would not have been rewarded if we failed.
— Richard Grasso
Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring? Nobody expected it, but all the ingredients were there. I think all the ingredients are also there for Quebec to become a country. But when? That's another question.
— Gilles Duceppe
In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
— Naoto Kan
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.
— David Crystal
You know, when we get to a point in this country where dissent is extremism, we've turned, I think, a very dark page in our history. And I don't want us to go there. I encourage Americans and I'm - right now, to go to these town hall meetings, to - to talk to your Congressmen, the people that you elected.
— Michael Steele
I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.
— Natalie Dormer
The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.
— Taylor Branch
I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown that I, like thousands of others in Ireland, incorrectly relied upon the persons who guided Anglo and who wrongfully sought to portray a 'blue chip' Irish banking sector.
— Sean Quinn
History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
— Mahmoud Darwish
Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks.
— Mohsin Hamid
History will treat me right.
— Ralph Abernathy
South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa.
— Tariq Ramadan
When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.
— John Henrik Clarke
Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals - as Marx averred - is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective Other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he.
— Will Self
It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.
— John Henrik Clarke
I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.
— John Henrik Clarke
Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
— Sylvia Earle
Winning the Super Bowl was obviously a great one, but the joy I felt of going to the Super Bowl, it was what I felt about the Pittsburgh Steelers and where we came from, the history of us to that point.
— Joe Greene
One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and retelling stories helps us to understand God's role in the world as well as our own position in a long line of ancestors who have wrestled with similar issues to the ones we wrestle with every day.
— Bruce Feiler
Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.
— Bruce Feiler
I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It's just full of all these open wounds we don't really know what to do with.
— Nick Cave
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.
— Bertrand Piccard
It's so important for people to pay attention to history and learn from it, because it's the only thing we've got that's going to help us figure out where we are going. Especially the way things are manipulated in the press today. You have to sort through so much stuff to figure out what is real and what is not. It gets harder every day.
— Joe Perry
The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid.
— Gever Tulley
I've always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I've always said is the best coach in the history of the league.
— Tom Brady
At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.
— Laurie Garrett
I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it.
— Eve Plumb
The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.
— Elon Musk
I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.
— Charlie Cox
When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.
— Brad Pitt
The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
— Salman Rushdie
The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant.
— Dallas Willard
The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.
— Greg Graffin
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
— Henry David Thoreau
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
— Steve Jobs
When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
— Salman Rushdie
Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.
— Bernie Sanders
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
— Mason Cooley
As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty.
— Steven Pinker
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
— Bertrand Russell
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
— Francis Bacon
The history of art is the history of revivals.
— Samuel Butler
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
— Ambrose Bierce
When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
— Malala Yousafzai
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
— Walt Whitman
Ultimately there's a dirty secret about the Internet, which is nothing disappears. All these companies have all your information. They have your search history.
— Ashton Kutcher
The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
— George W. Bush
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
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
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
— Camille Paglia
Strip malls are history.
— Jeff Bezos
What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant.
— Douglas Rushkoff
In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
— Elie Wiesel
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
— Richard M. Nixon
I let the American people down.
— Richard M. Nixon
Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
— Richard M. Nixon
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
— Martin Scorsese
The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
— Harry S Truman
I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
— Gertrude Stein
90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
— Colin Powell
September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.
— Tom Ford
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
— Margaret Thatcher
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
— Herbert Hoover
Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.
— George R. R. Martin
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
— Simone Weil
Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison.
— Annie Besant
History develops, art stands still.
— E. M. Forster
The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.
— Sylvia Earle
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
— William Butler Yeats
I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
— Usain Bolt
I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.
— Juliette Binoche
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
— Hilary Mantel
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
Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
— Jon Meacham
As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask 'Are you Susana?' and they run up and give me a hug.
— Susana Martinez
We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
— Tony Blair
Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
I did not come to NASA to make history.
— Sally Ride
There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.
— George Papandreou
Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics.
— Michael Eric Dyson
Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships.
— Rick Santorum
'No one sits Baby in a corner,' one of the best lines in movie history.
— Christine Quinn
I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
— Jeff Koons
I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined.
— Timothy Ferriss
Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.
— Dick Gregory
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
— Will Durant
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
— Henry Adams
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read.
— James Fenton
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
— Chinua Achebe
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.
— Patricia Heaton
Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.
— Angela Davis
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
— Douglas MacArthur
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