History Quotes
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In view of history, I sincerely wish that the ravages of war will never be repeated.
Akihito -
When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.
Marian Seldes
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It is a cruel irony of history that he left at the moment he was most needed, the very moment he was expected to provide leadership in helping to settle the future status of Kosovo.
Javier Solana -
The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher -
Those who ignore history’s lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them...they may be forced to die by them.
Dan Simmons -
Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world.
John Paul DeJoria -
And I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
Kurt Vonnegut -
When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.
Mariel Hemingway
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I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.
Anatoli Boukreev -
The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography.
Garry Winogrand -
We're working with NATO, the longest military alliance in the history of the world, to really turn our attention to terrorism.
Hillary Clinton -
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
Virginia Woolf -
The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution. Ataturk saw where history was going. He really did in Turkey what we are all hoping somebody will do in [Islamic] countries where fundamentalists thrive, that they get somebody today that has the vision that Ataturk had in 1915.
Ahmet Ertegun -
As a community organizer who holds a degree in history, I understand the fascination with history. However, there is a tendency for many of us to get engrossed in the recounting of our history, which often amounts to purely intellectual activity without material action.
Opal Tometi
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Art history is littered with work that involves light.
James Turrell -
The Oceanic White Tip is considered one of the most dangerous sharks in the sea along with the Great White and Tiger. It is responsible for some of the most famous episodes of man-eating in history, such as when the U.S.S. Indianapolis sank in 1945.
Brian Skerry -
The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.
Billy Higgins -
When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.
Lev Grossman -
Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.
Fred Saberhagen -
We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country.
Lorrie Fair
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I changed those things that were in direct - my direct control. I mean, I - look, I'm proud of the fact that, with two weeks to go, we're probably the first administration in modern history that hasn't had a major scandal in the White House.
Barack Obama -
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
Derek Walcott -
I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'
Andrea Jung -
History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
R. Buckminster Fuller