History Quotes
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One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pangs of conscience.
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Throughout history, independent minds have carried mankind forward. Whether they identified how to make fire or manufacture tools, develop rational philosophy or create man-glorifying art, pioneer scientific knowledge or invent the electric light, independent thinkers have created the goods on which human life and prosperity depend.
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History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.
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A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.
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The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists.
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I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.
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I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.
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Freedom has no history.
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Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.
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We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can be written about it. This is a perfect time to capitalize on and get kids excited about music education.
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Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
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My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on.
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I cannot stand no wack MC. So step back if you please, And don't test me, you're history.
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It is possible to know all about doctrine and yet not know Jesus. The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus. ....Have I a personal history with Jesus Christ? The one sign of discipleship is intimate connection with Him, a knowledge of Jesus Christ nothing can shake.
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History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
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I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.
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It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history.
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History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.
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If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.
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I can't pinpoint a period in history or a place in the universe where religion has actually helped the welfare of man.
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Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.
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As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the best date for that consummation.
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After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older and probably wiser, I can look back at my earlier life - my history, my mistakes, the joy I felt as a young woman traveling the world - with some objectivity and even some humor.
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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.
