History Quotes
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Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous.
Van Jones
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I really see Compton as a place with a lot of opportunity. It has a rich history, a strong community that has a strong sense of pride.
Aja Brown
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This has been an extraordinary election. But in one of God's unforeseen paths, this belatedly broken impasse can point us all to a new common ground, for its very closeness can serve to remind us that we are one people with a shared history and a shared destiny.
Al Gore
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When you don't know the rules, you break them all. It's hard to take big risks when you know the history of an industry and what has worked and what didn't.
Blake Mycoskie
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In a national capital Mirabeau and his set Attacked mystery ; the packed galleries roared And history marched to the drums of a clear idea, The aim of the Rational City, quick to admire, Quick to tire.
W. H. Auden
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Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.
Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
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We've done education nonprofit through our history, and maybe the profit motive will be helpful.
Alan Patricof
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When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
H. G. Wells
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There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.
David Hume
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As president, I will take steps to ban the box, so former presidents won't have to declare their criminal history at the very start of the hiring process.
Hillary Clinton
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One of the things about the six sixes, which really comes over me every time somebody asks a question or says to me, 'I've just seen them,' or people always ask me about it... It makes me feel that's the only thing I've ever done in the history of cricket.
Garfield Sobers
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I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.
Antonio Tabucchi
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The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive.
Kim Novak
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Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at the same time as creating our fictional characters and, hopefully, telling a good story. The challenge is weaving the fiction into the history.
Edward Rutherfurd
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When the greatest hero in the history of my party, Abraham Lincoln, debated, he didn't need any rules, ... We could junk the rules.
Alan Alda
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(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.
Ernest Hemingway
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When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities.
Adolf Hitler
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I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.
Kevin J. Anderson
