History Quotes
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It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.
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I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
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...In the history of medicine and science, no chronic or metabolic disease has been cured by factors foreign to the diet, (or) to biological experience.
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History is not was, it is.
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If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.
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It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.
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History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.
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Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth.
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People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.
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As Christians in America, we’re often lulled into the false belief that somehow we have a monopoly on the pure and undiluted version of the message of Jesus. Unfortunately, we don’t. Christianity by nature has a tendency to blend in and become obscured by the cultural influences that surround it—such has been the case for nearly 2,000 years of Christian history.
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When I think of black television and history, I always use The Cosby Show as the bar.
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Although the history of dispossession and exile for Jews is very different from the history of dispossession and exile for Palestinians, they both have recent and searing experiences which might allow them to come to a common understanding on the rights of refugees, or what it might mean to live together with resonant histories of that kind.
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Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.
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If a quick glance back over world history shows us anything, it shows us that war was one of our most universal joys from our earliest beginnings, savored at every possible opportunity and even some quite incomprehensible ones.
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There's a long history of presidents coming in, saying they're gonna to take on the bureaucracy. What they really mean is they're gonna try to shift the emphasis of where those bureaucrats are gonna work and how they're gonna spend their time towards achieving objectives that presidents want to achieve.
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The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.
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Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.
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Our earth was just one thin example of what was possible, and because it was possible, this history was inevitable.
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History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.
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Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books.
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History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
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One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser.' I had to tell him, 'No, that's my record - and it doesn't include my juvenile history.'
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I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.
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There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have.... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in which the freedom of individuals and economic or social determinations come and get entangled. When someone lays a finger on one of those great themes--continuity, the effective exercise of human liberty, how individual liberty is articulated with social determinations--when someone touches one of these three myths, these good people start crying out that History is being raped or murdered.
