History Quotes
-
Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.
-
History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!
-
The lesson of History is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.
-
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
-
The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.
-
In reality, in the history of it, the captains are only really in charge during an engagement. The rest of the time, everyone had got the same vote. It's been very interesting finding that.
-
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will dig you in.
-
Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
-
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.
-
Muslims are very keenly aware of the history of their community, of the history of that relationship between their community and the rest of the world. And they have had this all through the centuries and are very much heightened by modern communications. I mean now you have Muslims in the Muslim world who can compare their situations with people elsewhere and they find that very humiliating.
-
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
-
Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
-
The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it, and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.
-
The history of cinema appears to be easy to do, since it is, after all, made up of images; cinema appears to be the only medium where all one has to do is re-project these images so that one can see what has happened.
-
I am a man of peace. I am longing and working and praying for peace, but I will not surrender the safety and security of the British constitution. You placed me in power eighteen months ago by the largest majority accorded to any party for many, many years. Have I done anything to forfeit that confidence? Cannot you trust me to ensure a square deal to secure even justice between man and man?
-
Skepticism is history's bedfellow.
-
I have a very connected history with Bilal. I heard his demo years ago. I heard all of the magic instantly. He's a master at interpretation of song.
-
As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.
-
It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.
-
I read The Vegetarian and fell in love with it. A year later, I was invited to go and speak at the London Book Fair (which I'd never even heard of before), as they were gearing up for Korea being the market focus country in 2014. I met Max Porter there, Kang's editor at Portobello, sent him my sample, and the rest is history.
-
Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history Entwickelungsgeschichte of the abstract, genealogical individual; ontogeny, on the other hand, is the developmental history of the concrete, morphological individual.
