History Quotes
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Each line is now the actual experience with its own innate history. It does not illustrate - it is the sensation of its own realization. a written art note by Twombly on a painting he created in 1957.
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Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history.
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The history of New Orleans was always a fascination to me - such a blend of light and darkness and plague and pleasure and hedonism and fear and death. It's just a very, very intriguing city. I have this strange love relationship with it.
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I just always loved watching the History Channel and stuff like that. I could come home from school and just watch it all day. It just interested me.
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I like the fact that my husband and I have been together for a long time and have a warm and colourful history together.
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I have a counter-theory...I believe men built most things because women were shut out of political power, job opportunities, and education for most of history, and instead forced into servitude towards men in the home. I believe my theory has a lot of evidence for it, in the form of all of history.
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He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
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You may not be able to change the events of your history, but you can change the story you've attached to those events.
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I learned French in Tunis, along with Arabic. I also learned French history. I knew the entire history of the kings of France. And I was fascinated by Versailles.
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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.
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We cannot escape history.
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I like characters and stories that challenge the status quo. Lately, I'm really interested in history because I find that in my public school education, I didn't learn about women in history. I want to introduce the world to some great stories and incredible heroes.
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I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.
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I believe we're living at a time in human history where it's just simply unacceptable that children wake up and don't know where to find a cup of food.
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Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradictions, redaction and myths passed off as verifiable history.
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I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.
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We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.
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A triumph in which Kissinger could claim to have played some little part, in the presidential elections that November, President Richard Nixon had won the second greatest landslide in American history. Forty-seven million Americans had voted for him - and for his and Kissinger's policies - representing more than 60 percent of all the votes cast.
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Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.
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The values transmitted through oral history are many - courage, selflessness, the ability to endure, and to do so with humor and grace. I got those values listening to my dad's stories about the Depression and how their family survived. It gave me courage that I, too, could survive hard times.
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A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.
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Massage's history is rooted in technique and body knowledge, but is also about heart, healing intention and connection between therapist and client. A tension - sometimes constructive, other times uncomfortable - has been prevalent in the field between one impulse toward structure and recognition and another toward freedom and flexibility to be responsive to individual circumstances.
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'Ida' doesn't set out to explain history. That's not what it's about. The story is focused on very concrete and complex characters who are full of humanity with all its paradoxes. They're not pawns used to illustrate some version of history or an ideology.
