History Quotes
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History has suggested that the pessimists have been wrong time and time again.
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History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided up into these discrete humans and that your physical self, your physical attributes, your moment of history and the place where you were born determine who you are as much as all that indefinable stuff that's inside of you.
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History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down.
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Melted down, silver is worth a little more than four dollars an ounce. But carved, inlaid, and engraved, and identified with a particular year, it becomes the direct reflection, often the literal record, of human history, our movement through time.
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Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.
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I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory.
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The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.
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As best I could tell, Americans had little ability to learn from history. We were doomed to repeat the past, again and again.
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I don't think my election as Taoiseach actually made history - it just reflected it, reflected the enormous changes that had already occurred in our country.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.
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There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.
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How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
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It is vital now to see this moment for what it is. This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt, but it is a moment for hope and ambition for Britain. A time not to fight against the tide of history, but to take that tide at the flood, and sail on to fortune.
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If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.
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A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire a glorious past just as he acquires antique furniture. By that past he is reassured of his present importance; in it he finds strength to face the dangers that lie in front of him.
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Hale had answered when the President of the United States can't go to a city of the United States and be protected, we've come to a very difficult time in our nation's history, and encouraged him to come.
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How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?
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One of the peculiar features of history is that time always erodes advantage. Every invention sooner or later erodes advantage. Every invention sooner or later leads to a counter-invention.
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Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.
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History is not just about the things we like or the people we want to love and admire—a fantasy date with our favorite dead person.
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The ones that were relevant while I wrote my book were books like "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, which is based on a historical fact, "Ragtime" by E.L. Doctorow, and "True History of the Kelly Gang" by Peter Carey.
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That decision will in history be written as the biggest mistake that American administration ever made, because Lehmans was a world investment bank. They had testicles everywhere.
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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
