History Quotes
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Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
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In a society with a long history of discrimination, there should be a presumption that many laws with a discriminatory impact likely were motivated by a discriminatory purpose.
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At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely there could never be in seventy years so much change.
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History is a ghost story. My own childhood has passed into history, and the ghosts I find there are the ghosts of Heroes and dragons and Berserks and witches, and it has become fashionable not to believe in these things anymore. But I believe, for I was there.
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History is full of lessons for how water crises could have been avoided or better managed.
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History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.
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The spirits are an age-old theme, a story from darkest history, and therefore a presentational anchor that can be used with many different magic tricks.
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I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.
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Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.
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The problem is poverty. And it hides the problem. We often associate black churches with a history of protest. But prosperity gospel and megachurches tend to be rather soft on political issues. T.D. Jakes doesn't take a major stand on political issues. Creflo Dollar certainly doesn't.
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I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blinkers and the self, now gradually the reemergence of a self without blinkers.
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A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know, Its blood, which is its history.
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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
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What's happening is that Asian and Latino and other groups without that history are more likely to end up in either black churches or white churches and then make them multiracial churches. I talk about that in the US we have two cultures.
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The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
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History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
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If one person sits down at their computer one day and types one word, dose that affect the future? If that one person didn't type that one word, would the future's history be changed? Dose their one word even mean anything? Dose my one (times a lot) word mean anything? Dose that one person's one word even get read-once? If I wasn't sitting here writing my words, would my future be different?
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We're about to live through history and it's incredibly exciting. But don't make the mistake of thinking life stops because of any of this.
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I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
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At school, my favorite subjects were history, biology, chemistry, and physics. Especially the teaching in physics was excellent. Most of my understanding of it I got at high school, not at the university.
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I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.
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One man, she thought then, could build or destroy, could change time and history, for better or worse. One man. Or one woman.
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History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.
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You know what? I didn't mess up about Paul Revere... In a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, I answered candidly. And I know my American history.
